Word: galway
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...duty-free $1.50 a fifth at Shannon Airport. Macken's wild geese fly west, sometimes to nest in their natural habitat in the U.S. book club (his novel, Rain on the Wind, was a Literary Guild selection). He specializes in the most Irish part of Ireland, i.e., Galway in the west, least touched by the modern (or non-Irish) world...
...story-The Parting-is characteristic of the rest. It tells of Michael Joyce leaving his remote Aran hamlet for the mainland, where at 13 he will be committed to the life of a priest. On the same boat, the family slings , a bullock they have sold away to Galway. The loading is botched and so, in emotional terms, is the boy's farewell; the family is torn by an anguish it can only express in hysteria and anger. The boy himself believes that he is being sent to the priesthood to eke out the family income, and his fate...
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...Galway, where the big modern buildings of the Western Regional Sanatorium face the mountains of Clare, the case of Bernadette Healy, 19, typified both a century of tuberculosis' ravages and the abrupt change of recent years. Her father, who raised potatoes on two acres, used to tell Bernadette how two neighboring families had been wiped out by the "shameful weakness" of TB. Though he complained about his own "weak chest," he stubbornly refused to see a doctor...
Lord Killanin, an art patron and onetime Fleet Street reporter, suggested that Thoor Ballylee, the Galway castle where Yeats lived for twelve years, should be turned into a Yeats museum. Valentin Iremonger, one of Ireland's leading younger poets, calbd this "pernicious sentimentality." Said Iremonger: "We ought to honor our dead by loving our living, not by erecting a necropolis in the County Galway." Iremonger thought he had a better idea: an occasional monetary award for deserving poets. Thomas McGreevy, director of Ireland's National Gallery, thought the ideal memorial would be a retreat where poets and scholars...