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    At the Races
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    At the Races

    By Michael McCarthy

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    Michael McCarthy grew up on a farm in West Cork, Ireland. His first poetry collection Birds' Nests and Other Poems won the Patrick Kavanagh Award. His children's books have been translated into seventeen languages.

    He works as a priest in North Yorkshire.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSmith Doorstop
    Release dateMar 4, 2013
    ISBN9781906613556
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    At the Races
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    Michael McCarthy

    Michael D McCarthy served as a Senior Officer in the Logistics Branch of the RAF, including 3 years as a specialist instructor to Officer Cadets. On leaving the RAF he moved into the management of Customer Support in major Aerospace Companies in the UK and in Sweden. He has wide experience of customer support activity throughout the European aerospace community, covering both major contractors and suppliers. Following early retirement, he has recently spent 2 years working in a support role in a University Library in order to obtain ‘hands-on’ experience of the demands of customer care in this particular environment.

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