By Andrea Cleghorn Anyone who watched the 2016 Democratic National Convention could not have missed Rev. William Barber, the dynamic North Carolina…
Read MoreBy Andrea Cleghorn Fifty years is a long time in anyone’s book. But somehow half a century evaporated in the mist when…
Read MoreSpecial to The Bedford Citizen Andrea Cleghorn is a longtime Bedford resident, having lived here in two different houses near the Common…
Read MoreBy Andrea Cleghorn If you were to look up “Irish writer/bicyclist/adventurer” online, Dervla Murphy’s name and face would come up. She has…
Read MoreBy Andrea Cleghorn Last fall, which we all know as the real start of any year, on weekday mornings at home in…
Read MoreBy Andrea Cleghorn There are plenty of reasons to make the journey to Ireland: Uncover your roots and then cope with what…
Read MoreThere is quiet industry in the countryside of West Cork, housed in a pretty house with robin’s egg blue shutters, gorgeous hydrangeas…
Read MoreBy Andrea Cleghorn It is hard to miss a man with a clown jacket and a crown of balloons, still there is…
Read MoreBy Andrea Cleghorn There’s a small town in County Wexford that is celebrating its 1500th birthday, but that is not the only…
Read MoreBy Andrea Cleghorn Heading toward the capital city from the south, it is worth a detour to slow down, get out…
Read MoreBy Andrea Cleghorn Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of Dispatches from Ireland by Bedford writer Andrea Cleghorn Who…
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