Patrick Duffy
Articles by Patrick Duffy
2021
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A Nurse in Wartime
The tempo of life in wartime is swift and changeable. Men and women come into and slip out of one’s life, never to be seen…
2019
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Irish Art / Culture
Notes from the Other Island
The collected reports of a former Irish correspondent for British media depict a country that is notably less prosperous than it is today but one…
2015
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Irish Art / Culture
The City Mapped
Two new volumes from the Royal Irish Academy illustrate the enormous variety and detail of eighteenth and nineteenth century Dublin, with its fine streets and…
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World History
The Great Extermination
In 1810 Alexander Wilson watched, in Kentucky, a ‘prodigious’ procession of wild pigeons which took six hours to pass over him. The column, he estimated,…