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Alan Hollinghurst provided a rich overture for the roll call of talent which is to follow this week.
With flames raining down from the skies in Ukraine as Russia continues its three-year war, and heading towards the clouds in Moygashel near Belfast as effigies of refugees burn, the West Cork Literary Festival appears, as it often does, a haven of peace, good manners, and inherent intelligence.
This year’s 27th festival, the largest ever with 110 authors participating in 95 events, opened on Friday night with Alan Hollinghurst, hailed as one of the greatest writers of the past 50 years, on stage at Bantry’s Maritime Hotel.
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