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Sat 08 Aug 2008An Irishman's Diary
TODAY is the feast-day of St Fiachra, a seventh-century Irish monk who, by lending his name to the horse-drawn Parisian hackney cab of old, has ensured himself at least literary immortality. Unfortunately, he might have regarded this as a dubious honour.
Here, for example, is the Swiss novelist Blaise Cendrars, describing (in 1927) the revels of one his heroes on a night out in St Petersburg:
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