WritingfromIndependent1 month agoMy Money: 'I spent a quarter of my pension lump sum on a Waldorf Astoria suite and a 1988 Lafite Rothschild'Thomas McCarthy is a significant Irish poet shaped by his university experience and literary revival in the 1970s.
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