Word: cuchulainn
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...themselves. Descending on Dublin in the mid-1950s to study medi cine, Blaydon does battle - on the beaches, in the fields, in the streets - with a suc cession of colleens. Beautiful Theresa has a voice as misty as the mountains of Mourne, and a heart hard enough to splinter Cuchulainn's sword. After another fruitless try, with a girl named Oonagh, Blaydon comes to grips with Dymphna Uprichard (pronounced "Eweprichard"), a pale, leggy hoyden who adores wrestling by the hour in hallways and on sofas...
...small state is on the losing side," said the spiritual descendant of the great warriors Cuchulainn and Brian Boru, "it can be utterly annihilated. If [it] is on the winning side, it has no means of [enforcing] the principles for which it fought...
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