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Protected: The Quarrymen by Brendan Share (CRH)

Chapter 1  – A Little Yard at St James’s Place   ‘IT WAS ALL UNPLANNED, OF COURSE’, Donal Roche remembered, ‘because we were thrown into the world to make a living. I was about 13 or 14. Tom was 16 or 17; and Willie, who was the head of the family when my father died, […]

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