Culture is a basic need, and cultural heritage a symbolic necessity that gives meaning to human lives connecting past, present and future.

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But Jordan manages to unite everything the florid imagery, the dark emotional undertones, the flaky comedy, the astonishing physical beauty of the Irish seacoast into a single, unbroken mood, a smooth arc connecting the past and the present, the familiar and the unforeseen.

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