This much I know: Colm Tóibín

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Sat, 16 Jun, 2012 - 01:00

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I would like to have been a civil servant. Maybe in the Department of Education of a very enlightened and changing country, like Spain in the early 1980s, or Britain in the late 1940s, or Brazil now.

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