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- Aidan
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- Welsh lit, working-class lit, hard s-f, lit fiction, history, socialism, Irish politics, UK/European/US politics, modern poetry, critical/literary theory all sorts of other stuff except crime/horror. I collect Left Book Club books.
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- PhD in 1930s Welsh Literature. Senior Lecturer in English, Media and Cultural Studies in a central English university. Keen fencer, cyclist and trades union activist.
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The reader (right) is life-size and above an archway at Vilnius University, Lithuania
"To all appearance the Irish really have no sexual life, beyond the minimum necessary to perpetuate their cantankerous species." Ussher, The Face and Mind of Ireland, 1949. - Location
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