Word: inishkea
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...demolished houses in Lancashire; in Ireland cables had been broken, trees torn up, the grandstand at the Tramore racetrack shattered; there had been a flood at Limerick. Over the west coast airplanes hunted for signs of wreckage or the bodies of the 50 fishermen of Killala, Cleggan Bay, Inishkea. The sea, as if offering an ironic apology, rolled up eight corpses on the sand. To the men who had drowned, Father Quinn granted conditional absolution. He tried to comfort 200 members of their families, and he listened to an improbable story which was being told in all the villages. Some...
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