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Having spoken to Kay O’Gorman on the phone we both came to the conlcusion that the title of her autobiography, Where’s Your Mama Gone? is in fact not all that appropriate.

IN A curious way, Barack Obama’s recent presidential campaign has some strange parallels with Daniel O’Connell’s battle for Catholic Emancipation in the 1820s.

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.”

The biannual series of cultural events at Coole Park is now drawing to a close but there are still a few events to look forward to before the end of the programme.

The biannual series of cultural events at Coole Park finishes today (Friday) with a reading by Galway poet Pete Mullineaux.

DESPITE IT’S somewhat dramatic opening, “On 18 August 1588 a barque of Southampton was fishing about 36 miles southeast of Sumburgh Head, Shetland, when the crew sighted the Spanish Armada approaching from over the horizon to the south,” The Downfall of the Spanish Armada in Ireland by Ken Douglas, published by Gill & Macmillan, begins where the romance and the glory of that most colourful of invasions ended and the inevitably tragic and sordid debacle began.

DURING REFERENDA on European treaties - such as during the recet Lisbon Treaty campaign - you will meet the odd excitable type who’ll tell you that he’s voting No because some closet member of Youth Defence or the Communist Party of Ireland told him the treaty would end Irish neutrality.