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Harper Lee: Publicity-shy author of the classic American novel of racial injustice
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Killarney landbank for €520,000
The site once formed part of Killarney’s first golf course built some 200 years ago
New film sparks memories of ‘Moby Dick’ in Youghal
Residents recall having a whale of a time when Hollywood legends arrived in 1954
Moment of truth as Lucas Cranach painting makes €13.3m
The artist’s intriguing ‘La Bocca della Verità’ sells for a record price at Sotheby’s
Harper Lee’s ‘Watchman’ novel sells over 1m in first week
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Nominations sought for O’Flaherty humanitarian award
Msgr Hugh O’Flaherty helped thousands escape Nazis in Rome during second World War
Sri Lanka: the ultimate tea break
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Comer buys 400-acre Kildare estate for €10m
Courtown Demesne set to enhance growing portfolio of lands around Dublin
Lauren Bacall, star of Hollywood’s golden age, dies
Actress with throaty voice shot to fame in 1944 opposite future husband Humphrey Bogart
Lucía Puenzo: angels, demons and Nazis in the attic
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The Times We Lived In: Having a whale of a time
Published: July 18th , 1954 Photograph by Dermot Barry
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