Dublin City Univerisity’s School of English is hosting two commemorative evenings in April on DCU's St Patrick's campus for two of Ireland’s most acclaimed writers, John McGahern and Nobel Laureate, Seamus Heaney.
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Kenny Rogers is the best singer in the world. Better than Kris Kristofferson and Glen Campbell put together. There’s a cassette player in our Ford Cortina and this is the stuff we listen to on our summer holiday, driving up the west coast from Kerry to Donegal. My mother chain-smokes Carroll’s and threatens to kill us if we don’t stop tormenting each other on the back seat. My little sister can’t sit in the middle in case she gets sick, and my big brother can’t sit there either because Daddy won’t be able to see over his head.