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The Big Trip: WAY OUT WEST Biographer DJ Taylor discovered the remote extremity of Ireland's Co Kerry through the eyes of one of his subjects, the Victorian satirist William Makepeace Thackeray, who visited in 1842. How would it measure up today?

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From: The Independent on Sunday
Date: 20040808
Author:DJ Taylor

From the arrivals lounge, Cork airport looks half built. There are four departure gates, each debouching on to a modest strip of tarmac filled with an assortment of small aircraft, baggage trucks and minibuses. Beyond lies a Brobdingnagian ghetto of unfinished tower blocks, piled- up rubble and fenced-off roadway, the latter flanked by a kind of Sargasso Sea of orange cones. Further still into the distance, summer verdure tracks away into the Cork suburbs.

Oddly enough these architectural preparations stir a twitch on the historical thread. To William Makepeace Thackeray, coming this way in ...

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