Episode 31: The Pharmacist
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Not everyone's story makes it to the history books - but everyone has a story to tell. Listener Ian McBurney talks to Declan and Tara about his great-grandfather Matthew McDonald, an upstanding citizen whose life is upended by the troubles in Ireland.
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