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Tag Archives: Leontia Flynn

The Passionate Shepherd – Leontia Flynn’s These Days

November 4, 2012

Friends were surprised when I said that my narrowboat wouldn’t prove popular with the ladies. ‘What’, they asked ‘about the …

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Belfast Child – Leontia Flynn’s Drives

October 17, 2012

I was standing at the counter of a Belfast tourist office watching as a biro was waved over a map. …

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The vibrator in the drawer – Leontia Flynn’s Profit and Loss

July 18, 2012

  Buy Profit and Loss from Cape Poetry There is something uncanny about houses. Especially other people’s and especially shared …

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