For six decades, participants in the annual event have argued burning issues of the day
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Older programmes on 1916 may have been better at bringing Irish history to life
HBO has been the actor’s main employer for years, which enables him to do smaller projects, such as a reading of Joyce’s story The Dead in Dublin this week
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