Wexford Ireland
Oct 01, 2020
3 minutes
The 1951 census in Ireland showed Wexford had just 12,000 people living in it. Its once busy harbour was declining, a post-war economic depression lingered, and the idea of starting an international opera festival in the town seemed frankly laughable.
Tom Walsh, however, thought differently. A Wexford man himself, Walsh had qualified as a doctor in Dublin and come home to work in his native area. Walsh was also an ardent opera fan, and when the English writer
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