The Appalachians in the US, the Highlands in Scotland, and the Atlas mountains in Morocco were once all part of the same mountain range before Pangea broke up.
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So coming out from Callan, past the graveyard, down about a mile or so thereâs Trenchmore Wood, youâre into Tipp then. Past Poulacapple and on until a tight righthander, then back into the parish of Windgap and the pub at Kilamery. Then on back into Tipp before Ninemilehouse.
Stephen Fry is the president of the MCC.
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Thatâs a grand little pub in Kilamery. I was only in it the once. With The Dow as it happened. There was a match on the TV as we travelled, and we says to ourselves we wouldnât watch it in Tipp.
Thatâs a bad bend alright. Whenever we passed the father would always tell the story of the two lads cutting hay in the two fields on the bend. Theyâd always start in the first field and then move onto the second field. But for some reason this one year they started in the second field. And sure enough didnât a car miss the bend and ploughed straight into where they would have been standing in the first fieldâŚ
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The house on the corner is owned by a grand family, farmers whoâs kids all went to school in Callan. Bought hurls off the auld boy. Weâd have a couple of underage pints in Killamery before heading to a Windgap disco.
A tale as old as the bend in the road itself. Thereâs one of those bends in every county.
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Probably. 
Brave ladsâŚ
Three things:
Liverpool was a predominantly Tory city until the 60s.
It also had the only Irish nationalist MP outside Ireland in 1913.
Padraig Pearses father was brought up in Birmingham.
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Oliver Cromwell was executed after he died naturally. Reference made to it in this novel (a cracking read)
âWhen King Charles II was recalled from exile, his new parliament, in January 1661, ordered the disinterment of the elder Cromwellâs body from Westminster Abbey, as well as those of John Bradshaw and Henry Ireton, for a posthumous execution at Tyburn. The three bodies were left hanging âfrom morning till four in the afternoonâ[1] before being cut down and beheaded. The heads were then placed on 20-foot (6.1 m) poles and displayed on the roof of Westminster Hall[2] (the location of the trial of Charles I).â
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Serves the cunt right.
Why? What did he do?
What?
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Oliver had it coming. He gave the Louth lads an even worse hiding than Kerry did.
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Danni Alves has been in custody in Barcelona since last January after a 23-year-old lady alleged he had sexually assaulted her.
Found that book a very enjoyable read
Best Iâve read in a while.
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âThe rest is historyâ?
Yes.
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