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11 March 2023

9:00 AM

11 March 2023

9:00 AM

‘Come dance with me in Ireland.’ That has always struck me as an enchanting prospect, though a recent Hibernian venture did not involve dancing and took place in London.

There was an Irish academic called R.B. McDowell. To call him eccentric would be an understatement. He adorned Trinity College Dublin for decades, starting from the era when TCD was still part of the Anglo-Irish Protestant Ascendancy.

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