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The Yellow River is not a nostalgic memoir for Seán McSweeney and Gerard Smyth
The Yellow River is not a nostalgic memoir for Seán McSweeney and Gerard Smyth

IT’S not nostalgia. The Yellow River, a collaborative project between poet Gerard Smyth and painter Seán McSweeney, delves deep into the pair’s memories of Co Meath, but Smyth, selecting words with the care to be expected of a poet, balks slightly at “nostalgic”.

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House makes history with 2016 Restoration Award
House makes history with 2016 Restoration Award
THE restored library at Combermere Abbey in Shropshire has won the 2016 Restoration Award presented by the Historic Houses Association and sponsored by Sotheby’s. 

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