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Shane Hegarty

Shane Hegarty

Shane Hegarty is Arts Editor of The Irish Times and a weekly columnist. He is the author of The Irish Times Book of the 1916 Rising (with Fintan O'Toole) and The Irish and Other Foreigners.
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