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Cormac MacConnell
Cormac MacConnell is a veteran writer and journalist. His much loved column, about his life in County Clare and observations about Irish life, has appeared in the Irish Voice for close to 30 years.
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Unionism and the ethnic cleansing of Northern Ireland's nationalist youth
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