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# it's only words

All time
What does it take to translate a best-seller into another language?
‘He tickled Bertie’s belly’: Here’s what Colm Keaveney used to say about Fianna Fáil
The most annoying words in 2011? Yeah, whatever.
"The dream of our ancestors and founders" - The Kenny/Obama speech mash-up