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Sat 05 May 2007The definitive de ValeraTV Review Hilary FanninEaster 1916. "He had little or no sleep for the entire week. He was out walking all night when he came across a train carriage and he decided to break in and catch a few hours' sleep.When he awoke, he looked up at the ceiling and, as he always said to us, 'I thought I was in heaven, I saw all these seraphims over my head.' He wiped the sleep from his eyes, looked again and realised that he had broken into the king's state carriage."