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Thu 07 Jul 2009Timely tale of a rogue and his racehorse
BARRY O'HALLORANreviews Eclipseby Nicholas Clee Bantam Press, 344pp, £25
AMBITIOUS AS he was, it’s unlikely that even Denis O’Kelly would have guessed he was on the road to founding a dynasty when he left Tullow, Co Carlow, for London as a teenager in the 1730s.
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