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Once the Midleton to Youghal walking and cycling track opens later this year, it’s a cast-iron certainty that never again will a train run along that ...

This magical Arkansas town in the Ozark Mountains brims with discoveries. Downtown Eureka Springs on March 20, 2021. Photograph by Trevor Paulhus Downtown Eureka Springs on March 20, 2021. Photograph by Trevor Paulhus April 15, 2021 This article is part of On the Road Again: A Texans guide to road trips in Arkansas, Colorado, Louisiana, New Mexico, and Oklahoma. About an hour outside Dallas, the signals of the city’s familiar radio stations start to fade. Instead of opening a music app on my ...

Photo courtesy of Anne Cotter As a young man, Peter O’Brien left his home in Northern Ireland to work at the shipyards in the Channel Islands. There, Irish and Scottish workers spun tales of America as a land of opportunity, a place where “everyone had cars.” Mr. O’Brien eagerly accepted driving lessons on his days off, hoping to soon be driving in a new country. After immigrating to the U.S. in the 1950s, Mr O’Brien would later marry and go on to teach his children, grandchildren and...