Places in the heart: a writer's boyhood memories

Douglas community park today: ‘No longer the big open field where matches were played and circuses came and pitched their tents’
Courtesy Cllr Kieran McCarthy, www.kieranmccarthy.ie

When I was a boy, five, six years old, my concept of the world amounted to little more than the distance I could see in every direction – my village, Douglas, as it was then.

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