History is found, not in the museums, but in the newspapers lining the shoe polish and brushes tin

I don’t know if I could handle ‘epic everything’. There are times you just want to sit down and put on your slippers writes Colm O’Regan.

A wise man should have once said: History is found, not in the museums, but in the newspapers lining the shoe polish and brushes tin.

Underneath some dessicated Punch mid-brown I found a copy of the Cork Examiner from 1983. It had unfamiliar headlines about issues that thankfully have long since been sorted out like abortion and the Middle East and also headlines about unfamiliar concepts, like inflation.