The Half Days

The Irish Leopard

“If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.” Il Gattopardo, Giuseppe di Lampedusa Without a doubt Gavin Brady was a product of that mythical time in the faculty when it was enough to flash your Irish passport and the professors would assume you were a literary descendant of James …

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The Half Days

Lawrence Drummond

The British was an old-fashioned sort of language school. It had that very end of Empire feel. The doors were painted blue and red, and there were framed posters of a Union Jack, maps of the London underground and photos of the Beatles in the classrooms. There was a life size poster of a Guardsman …

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