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Patrick Kavanagh: EPIC

I have lived in important places, times
When great events were decided, who owned
That half a rood of rock, a no-man's land
Surrounded by our pitchfork-armed claims.
I heard the Duffys shouting "Damn your soul!"
And old McCabe stripped to the waist, seen
Step the plot defying blue cast-steel -
"Here is the march along these iron stones."
That was the year of the Munich bother. Which
Was more important? I inclined
To lose my faith in Ballyrush and Gortin
Till Homer's ghost came whispering to my mind.
He said: I made the Iliad from such
A local row. Gods make their own importance.

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  A reply on Talk: Carolyn Steel: How food shapes our cities

  Oct 8 2009: Such a course already exists, in fact, a whole university, small and young as it might be: the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Piemonte, Italy
  www.unisg.it
  (website is also in English)