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Canberra this weekend - but none more enthusiastic than the Carmodys whose ancestor James arrived from County Clare aged 20 in 1851. Among his descendants was Sir Alan Carmody, pictured, famous Secretary of Customs, rising to the head of Prime Minister & Cabinet from
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with degrees in Arts (1946), Commerce (1947) and a
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