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Sat 06 Jun 2009And some time make the time
From its car salutes to its place between sea and mountain, the novelist NIALL WILLIAMShas spent the past quarter of a century falling in love with Co Clare
In describing the drive around Black Head and along the Flaggy Shore, in the north of the county, in the buffeting wind between sea and land, the poem captures an essence of Clare. It’s a between place. When someone from abroad asks me where Clare is I always begin with “between”: between Kerry and Galway, between the Shannon and the Atlantic.
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