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Being Irish is something with kudos these days, even though the idealisation involved might make you nearly as uneasy as the denigration...

I don’t know if there are the equivalent of the Oscars in Heaven but I think that my Guardian Angel should be nominated for Best in a...

M has given us a lift home and, as we get out of his car, my mother pulls paper money out of her purse and thrusts it at him. We go...

I am in an oasis in a large forested area on the Veluwe near the town of Doornspijk. I will not say it is forest because there is much...

Is like Europe is merging into Africa. The moment we came over the border into Portugal, we came across the kind of rock formations that...

I am seated next to the grey flank of a Catholic Church, full of real and tacky splendour inside. I only got a glimpse there when a whole...

Now we are on the beach. I hear only the ocean waves and Portuguese. I hate the beach. It’s full of people having fun. Running in and out...

It was an intentionally theatrical experience. Apart from the food, one real highlight was when the whole glass 'wall' window descended...