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    The William Trevor Reader: “The Distant Past”

    by Adam O’Fallon Price Apr 19, 2022 2 minutes

    “The Distant Past” is the first story in to directly address the conflict in Northern Ireland, aka The Troubles. The Middletons are an elderly brother-sister pair who live in an unnamed Irish town some 60 miles south of the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland. They live in the ruins of a formerly grand estate named Carraveagh and are well-known in the town as loyalist Protestants, but they are more

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