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Wed 06 Jun 2009An Irishman's Diary
WE HEAR constantly these days about projects being “rolled out”, even when the technology involved is square or rectangular and has no wheels attached. But in the case of work now under way at the National University of Ireland Maynooth (NUIM), the term is for once fully justified.
This particular project centres on a 300-foot-long scroll: about the size of a fire engine hose, but composed of paper stitched on linen and bearing an estimated 300,000 signatures.
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