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Extract from the Clonmel Travel Guides:
CLONMEL
, thirteen miles upstream from Carrick-on-Suir, is far and away Tipperary's prettiest centre. It's a strangely genteel kind of place and retains something of its flavour as an early coaching town. It was the birthplace in 1713 of Laurence Sterne, philosopher and literary comic genius, and it's not at all difficult to imagine Shandyesque shenanigans in the fine Georgian inns around town. A hundred years later Clonmel became the principal base for Bianconi, the most successful coach business in the country. The company's founder, Bianconi, came from Lombardy in Italy and ran his so-called Bians from what is now
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