Jan Morris

From Celtic tiger to pussycat

You can see the legacy of the Celtic Tiger years, in good roads and boarded-up shops, but something different is now abroad

Kylemore Abbey is a Benedictine monastery founded in 1920 on the grounds of Kylemore Castle (Photo: Getty)

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