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Read-out heads out to the West
After many years based in Dublin Read-out has finally "Gone West", settling where the ancient language of Ireland is the vernacular, where the pace of life is rural, and three cars are a traffic jam
After many years based in Dublin Read-out has finally "Gone West", not so much heeding the admonition of Horace Greely - we are neither young nor we suspect, are we going west enough - but fulfilling a dream of youth and settling in an area where the ancient language of Ireland is the vernacular, where the pace of life is rural and where three cars on the road constitute a traffic snarl-up and headlines on the local radio station! The name of the place in Irish is Caor n na gCearc Theas - which means the "southern hill of the grouse" - but that is such a fuss to pronounce as TS Elliott might have said that we usually call it just Caor n
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 29 Sep 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Caor n is a small community which appears isolated on first glance but in fact is full of real life and within easy distance of what passes for civilization in the early 21st century.
Galway, our nearest city and the fastest growing urban area in Europe, is about 26 pleasant miles away, and through Galway we can fly to anywhere in the world.
Coincidentally the Irish government announced that they were decentralising the bulk of Government Departments throughout the country.
Read-out however is just moving its centre from the east coast to the picturesque west coast.
There will be some teething problems obviously in moving from an essentially urban situation to one on the "periphery of Europe".
But thanks to the miracle of the internet, the Signpost www.Read-out.net and the bimonthly Read-out will be published as usual.
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