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Martin Tyrrell on Methodological Collectivism and the 1994 World Cup

About a year ago, Penguin (or, possibly, Picador) brought out The Picador (or Penguin) Book of Contemporary Irish Fiction. The ludicrous front cover featured Marilyn Monroe reading Ulysses. Marilyn died in 1962, forty years after Ulysses first rolled off Sylvia Beachem’s presses, so the image was none too contemporary. None too Irish either, come to think of it. Monroe, though she once touched down at Shannon Airport and obligingly sipped a Guinness for the photographers, was about as Irish as Jack Charlton’s eleven whilst James Joyce disliked Ireland so much he refused its diplomatic protection even when, following 1939, his physical safety made same advisable.

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