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The Moffatts – Bannockburn to Ballybay, Blackrock to Baghdad

From the Scottish Borders to the drumlins of Monaghan, from Blackrock to Baghdad — the story of the Moffatt family, and of Willie Moffatt CBE, the Trinity-trained sapper who spent 35 years building Iraq’s railways and rose to Director General under King Faisal II.

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