Word: corofin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These interviews, alas, seem rather stiff and dutiful. Mahoney's impressions of everyday life, by contrast, are as bracing as May mornings in Corofin, the West Clare town where she lived alone in a darkling castle worthy of the Addams family. She is puzzled by the chronic lateness of the Irish, for whom a 7 o'clock appointment can mean any time at all. She delights in their colorful nicknames -- Mickey the Bridge for a man who lives near one. Irish men are often regular churchgoers, she notes, even though they might lurch into the pews for a Saturday-evening...
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