Every day after school I would loiter there with friends, at the chip shop or in and out of Sportsgirl – with no money to spend but lots of time to look.
Our home towns are the first time we get a sense of place, and of spirit of place – where we discover the world, the shops and clifftops, the changing mood of a town, the way weather shifts – or the economy, the way it can be both the most boring place and the most exciting place ever, often in the space of a day. They’re our first country.
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Just don’t call it nostalgia. It’s something else. I feel different there. It feels rightful. In some places there is a feeling of deep ease. You sink into it, and every molecule of you says, “We have come home.”
The lead singer with the Irish band The Cranberries, was in London for a short recording session.
It is with great sadness that I have learned of
I recall with fondness the late Limerick TD Jim Kemmy's introduction of her and The Cranberries to me, and the pride he and so many others took in their successes
with the band citing O'Riordan's ongoing back problems as the cause.
The late singer rose to fame as the lead singer of The Cranberries in the '90s, providing distinctive vocal work to the band’s greatest hits, including
Victor Hugo once said, "There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul." Indeed, we need a mind that is broader than the sky as we approach different civilizations. Civilizations are like water, moistening everything silently.
Bones settled down in that volcanic soil or ashes scattered in the sea mist won’t feel like death, but will be like coming home.
We are often less attuned to how place interacts with how we feel.
lodged a bid
France lodged a bid with the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE), which is due to decide on the bids in November.
World Expos take place every five years, draw tens of millions of visitors and last up to six months
China is a strategic competitor using predatory economics to intimidate its neighbors while militarizing features in the South China Sea," according to unclassified pages of the 2018 US National Defense Strategy published on Friday.
China to allow expats longer stay
The current policies cap the time at three years.
blaze a trail
better known on the internet as "Snowflake Boy", at the invitation of
Capital offers its warm hospitality to 'Snowflake Boy'
free-spirited
received a very sweet makeover this January with creative direction from the brand's first-ever Asia-Pacific spokesperson, Tang Yan.
The iconic calf leather bag comes in light green, light blue and light rose
Bally was established in 1851, anchored in an exceptional heritage of shoemaking.
Wang Chengzhou, 49, has staked up residence under a road in Chongqing, where for the past 10 years he has been conducting his research while the city sleeps.
A blend of traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Western musical styles that has transformed into something new.
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Conservatives are often much more tolerant of dissenting views than those who fancy themselves the torch-carriers of open-mindedness.
Nope. Cross the left on a hot-button social issue, and you’re out.
You see, some on the left believe that they’re entitled to control the thoughts or votes of certain groups of people – namely, minorities and so-called “victim groups.” For some, it comes down to a cynical calculation: Without the overwhelming support of those groups, the Democrats would win very few elections.
That’s why the left lashes out so viciously at anyone who wanders off their assigned reservation.
A free-thinking, free citizen of a free country is not obliged to believe anything because someone else believes he or she “ought” to think or “ought” to vote or “ought” to rank his (or her) priorities a certain way.
What’s the phrase again? “Live and let live?” Why has that been turned on its head, into “agree – or else”?
Let’s debate issues and stop trying to punish “wrong” thinking.
In the build-up to Sunday's final against Marin Cilic, Federer went into Melbourne to seek inspiration by watching Gary Oldman's new Churchill biopic. It was his only misjudgement of the fortnight. Darkest Hour? This is more a second golden age, and there is no reason to think it will be a brief one.
