Ursuline Convent, Waterford, but withdrawn from school to nurse her mother, who suffered from rheumatroid arthritis, in 1945, ultimately sharing a bedroom with her suffered the death of her father, Dec. Kathleen Farrell, in whose house Charles Kerins (IRA Chief-of-Staff) was arrested, telling her of his brave death by hanging, Dec. Waterford, the only child of a local librarian and his wife, with grandparents who were politically active in 1916 and after, as were her own parents - her father being jailed for possession of rifle in the Civil War his parents having met in Poland, as solitary travels she was taught to swim by her father on the Blackwater and swam independently there during early teen-age the family was accustomed to listening to classical music with family on BBC Third Programme she planned to cycle to India at age of ten on receiving an atlas and a second-hand bicycle received a letter from Dr. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.1931- b. A series of chance meetings left her with a profound sense of a beautiful country and a unique culture threatened-once again-by the extreme pressures of the modern world. But she also discovered that the persisting problems bequeathed by its recent past are tragic and other problems threaten its immediate future. What she found was a country where the people-kind, gentle, welcoming-more than compensate for everything that can go wrong. When renowned travel writer Dervla Murphy went to Laos in 1997, she discovered a country that had only just opened its borders to the West. By the time of the ceasefire in February 1973, Laos had become the most heavily bombed nation in the history of the world. But the biggest bully in its history was the United States which, starting in 1964, carried on a "secret war" against Laos.
Nestled between Vietnam to the east, Myanmar and China to the north, Thailand to the west and Cambodia to the south, Laos has long suffered from the depredations of its larger neighbors.
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