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Inez Sharp, editor-in-chief

Two beautiful country houses in Ireland are at the heart of this month’s travel story. Reading the feature brought back memories of my mother’s unique approach to visiting grand homes in Britain in the 1970s and 80s.

There were lots of attractive National Trust houses to see, but my German mum was more interested in places that had a “private property” sign on the gate. In fact, she seemed to see this as a personal challenge to gain access. She would drive in with us and charm the first person she met into providing a free tour. Then, while my father, my sister and I sat cringing in the car, she and the head gardener would walk round the grounds of some lovely Georgian manor. “In the garden”, in contrast, which begins on page 14, is a delightfully relaxing tour of Curraghmore House and Tourin House in south-east Ireland.

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The charm of Irish country living

Kilmokea House in County Wexford, Ireland

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6 People Names and faces from around the world

8 A Day in My Life A US woman who drives a bookmobile

10 World View What’s news and what’s hot

13 Britain Today Colin Beaven on Britain and the EU

20 Debate Is democracy in danger?

26 I Ask Myself Amy Argetsinger on the US president in Cuba

28 Language Great books in our summer reading special

38 History Jazz legend Ella Fitzgerald died 20 years ago

40 Press Gallery A look at the English-language media

42 Arts Films, apps, culture and a short story

62 Around Oz Peter Flynn on the nutty Brits

64 The Lighter Side Jokes and cartoons

65 American Life Ginger Kuenzel on summer boating drama

66 Feedback & Next Month Your letters to Spotlight and upcoming topics

68 My Life in English TV presenter Alexandra Polzin

34 Time for tea

22 Britain’s EU exit?

Will Britain vote to leave the EU? We give you the basics of the Brexit debate.

Experience the living tradition of British teatime — complete with special recipes!

14 Great Irish homes

We visit Curraghmore and Tourin, grand houses with beautiful gardens in Ireland’s south-east.

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48 Vocabulary Talking about the beautiful game of football

50 Travel Talk Working abroad on an organic farm

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57 English at Work Ken Taylor answers your questions

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PEOPLE | Names and Faces

Texts by TALITHA LINEHAN

In the news

The manager

You don’t have to be a great football player to be a great manager. Roy Hodgson, the

manager of the national football team of England, was only a mode­rately successful player, but he’s had a fantastic career helping teams to win.

Hodgson, 68, was born in Surrey, England. He went to school with

another future football manager, Bob Houghton. The two men often worked together, first in England and later in Sweden, where they be­came known as “English Roy” and “English Bob”.

After playing for the London club Crystal Palace, Hodgson trained to become a football manager. He then

Ask people whom they think of when they hear the name Kylie, and they’ll probably say Kylie Minogue, the Australian singer. Now TV star and mod-el Kylie Jenner wants to trademark the name Kylie in the US, and Minogue is trying to stop her. Minogue’s managers have filed papers against Jenner’s appli-

cation, describing her as a “secondary reality television personality”. They say her use of the name Kylie would have a negative impact on the brand. Jenner, famous from the TV show Keeping Up with the Kardashians, has been named by Time magazine as one of the world’s most influential teens.

When Richard Gere, 66, makes a film on the streets of a city, people will always stop to say “hello” to him, ask him for his autograph and take photographs with him. But when he was working on a recent film, Time Out of Mind, on the streets of New York City — acting as a homeless person and being filmed by hidden cam-eras — everyone ignored him. Gere told reporters, “In the process of making the film, I might have learned ... how quickly one can mentally deteriorate, and the isolation that one can feel in the streets. Even in a city like New York — 12 million people passing by — without the social interaction, it’s like solitary confinement.” Gere spent 12 years working on the film and hopes it will change people’s attitudes to homelessness.

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worked as a teacher for a few years. He told The British Coaches Abroad Association: “In my first teaching job in Dulwich, all I ever did was coach football... I never stepped foot in a classroom or gymnasium.”

In 1976, Hodgson got a job as manager of the Swedish club Halm­stad. He later helped Switzerland’s national team qualify for the 1994 FIFA World Cup and again in 1996 for the UEFA European Football Championship.

Unusual in the world of football, the Englishman speaks Italian, Nor­wegian, Swedish and German. In the past 40 years, Hodgson, has managed 16 different teams in eight countries. He now hopes to lead England to victory in the 2016 UEFA Europe­an Championship, which starts in France on 10 June and continues un­til 10 July.

gymnasium [dZIm(neIziEm] Sporthalle

moderately [(mQdErEtli] mäßig

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application [(ÄplI(keIS&n] Antrag

brand [brÄnd] Marke, Warenzeichen

file papers [faI&l (peIpEz] hier: gerichtlich vorgehen

impact [(ImpÄkt] Einfluss, Auswirkung

trademark sth. [(treIdmA:k] etw. markenrechtlich schützen lassen

deteriorate [di(tIEriEreIt] herunterkommen, abbauen

solitary confinement [)sQlEtEri kEn(faInmEnt]

Einzelhaft, Isolationshaft

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The newcomer Happy birthday!

• Name: Lady Amelia Windsor

• Age: 20

• From: London, England

• Notable because:

As the granddaughter of the

Duke of Kent, a cousin of the

Queen, she is 36th in line to

the throne.

• Famous because:

She was recently named the

“most beautiful member of

the royal family” by the

British society magazine

Tatler, and was the first

royal to appear on its

cover since 2008.

• Future plans:

Lady Windsor is studying

French and Italian at the

University of Edinburgh,

but she also has an interest

in drama. She has acted in

university productions of

The Crucible and King Lear.

In 2000, boxer Mike Tyson won a fight in 38 seconds and de-

clared himself the best boxer in the world. Five years later,

though, he told USA Today, “My whole life has been a waste.”

Tyson was born in New York City. The man he knew as

his father left when he was a baby, and his mother died

when he was 16. He joined a gang and was arrested

dozens of times. In an article for New York magazine,

he wrote, “I was a little kid looking for love and ac-

ceptance, and the streets were where I found it.”

While at a school, he met a former boxer

who recognized his talent. At the age of 20,

Tyson became the youngest boxer to win

the four top heavyweight titles. He had a

great career, but many problems.

He was convicted of raping a teenager

in 1991, and later of drug possession and

drink-driving. In 1997, he was disqualified

from a fight for biting off part of his oppo-

nent’s ear. And by 2006, he was broke.

Since then, though, he has started a foun-

dation, written a book and done a successful

one-man show. Tyson will be 50 on 30 June.

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Richard Ohrn wanted everyone to think that he was dead. So last year, the 44-year-old from Palm Beach rented a boat and drove it a few miles off the coast of Florida. Leaving some of his blood on the boat, together with his wallet, phone and keys, he used a second boat to return to land and drove away. People spent two days and more than $400,000 looking for Ohrn. He was soon sorry about what he had done, returned home and told the police. They say he wanted people to think that he was dead because he had legal problems. Now, Ohrn faces felony charges and a pris-on sentence.

“If you kill an animal, you should eat all of it. It’s only polite.” This is what the English chef Fergus Henderson, 52, once told Vanity Fair magazine. His 1999 book, Nose to Tail Eating, has recipes for things like lamb’s hearts, pig’s head and haggis. It has now won first place in a list of the 1,000 best cookbooks, as nominated by chefs and food writers. Henderson says he enjoys eating the hearts of animals, but doesn’t really like their lungs, eyes or genitals. You can find more of his recipes in his 2007 book, Beyond Nose To Tail, and his 2012 book, The Complete Nose to Tail.

On 6 February 1958, the English football club Manchester United was returning home when its plane crashed at Munich- Riem Airport. Eight of the players died. Nine survived. Dennis Viollet was one of the survivors, and he is the subject of a new film by his daughter, Rachel. After the crash, Viollet continued to play football. But Rachel told The Independent that the

crash affected him until the end of his life, in 1999. “I remember one day Dad was

exceptionally quiet, and I asked my mum what was wrong. It

was the anniversary of the crash.” The film,

which premiered in March, is called

Dennis Viollet: A United Man.

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drink-driving [drINk (draIvIN] Trunkenheit am Steuer

foundation [faUn(deIS&n] Stiftung

rape [reIp] vergewaltigen

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A DAY IN MY LIFE | United States

My name is Jessica Moran, and I am 29 years old. I work for the Tillamook County Library as the bookmobile driver. I’ve been with the library for

eight years, and I’ve been the bookmobile driver for al-most two years now.

My day usually starts around 6 a.m. The first thing I do is make a pot of coffee. Then I take a shower and wake up my two kids. I have a daughter, age 7, and a son, age 8. I give them something to eat and get them dressed, then

it’s out to the bus and off to school. I get to work at about 8:30 a.m. I check my e-mails for any important news and look at my schedule, be-cause every day it’s different.

The Tillamook County bookmo-bile is a 27-foot- ( e i g h t - m e t e r ) long bus tailored to carry books. It has about 10 rows of shelves in six columns on both sides of the bookmobile. The shelves are slanted backwards so that the books won’t

fall out when I drive. On any given day on my bookmo-bile, I haul upwards of 3,000 books, DVDs, and audio books, and for the younger kids, picture and board books.

The bookmobile is fun to drive, once you get used to it. You have to make broad turns and remember that the bus is wider than the average car. The bookmobile is set up so that you are sitting way in front of the wheels, and the engine is right next to you — in the middle between the two seats. So you are right there at the front with these giant windows all around you. Sometimes you feel as if you are floating.

My longest route is on Wednesday. It’s roughly 150 miles (240 km), and it’s a very long day. Today, I’m going to take you on my Thursday route. Most of my stops are within five miles of each other. I’d say I drive a 50-mile (80-km) round trip.

I leave at about 9 o’clock and stop at Head Start, a center for children who are from low-income families and who need a little help. I go into the classroom and bring the 15 or so students onto the bookmobile. I read them a couple of short stories, they get to pick out some books, and then they go back into the classroom. My next stop is

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Loves her community: Jessica Moran

A bus full of books from Tillamook County Library

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