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Article: The return of the age of 'Aquarius'
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- The Irish Times
- Article date:
- August 28, 2009
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A new anthology of the literary magazine 'The Everyman', later
known as 'Aquarius', paints a portrait of Ireland between 1968 and
1974, with all the questions and politics that characterised that
turbulent period
IN 1973, HILTON EDWARDS saw Ireland and the Irish people as being
in something of a fix. "I say we made a fatal mistake of going into
the Common Market," he told the literary magazine Aquarius. "Instead
of being this unique, quiet island which had something lovely,
gentle and - don't laugh - tranquil to offer the world. Very soon we
are going to be in the position of being inefficient marketeers,
unless we do something the Irish have proved very capable of doing
in America - become ...