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The actual Irish weather report is really a recording made in 1922, which no one has had occasion to change. Scattered showers, periods of sunshine.

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Wilfrid Sheed
Age: 80 †
Born: 1930
Born: December 27
Died: 2011
Died: January 19
Novelist
London
England
Wilfrid John Joseph Sheed
Change
Recording
Made
Occasion
Really
Reports
Sunshine
Occasions
Scattered
Actual
Showers
Weather
Report
Periods
Irish

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