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Rogues & Vagabonds

Kate O’Toole @ Colm Henry 1995

Background
When I’m not working either on stage or on location somewhere, I live in grand seclusion at the end of a remote peninsula in Connemara, in the same area where I happily spent much of my childhood. Normally I feel blessed to have made my home so far from the madding crowd and in such a beautiful part of the world, but these past few weeks have been anything but normal and there were several moments recently when I cursed the fact that I had chosen to live in a region which teeters over the wild Atlantic shoreline because although it has much to recommend it, as a place where one can get glitzed-up and ready to go to the Oscars it’s completely and utterly useless.

The fuss began back in January while my father was staying with me for a short holiday. The unexpected news that he was to receive an honorary Oscar didn’t…

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