“Sawford recognises that the pressure to put Kettering first risks parochiality.”

“Presenter Mairead McGuinness, an agricultural journalist, mixed it all up with that unique RTE brand of parochiality.”

“Alongside this parochiality we find a taste for the distant and exotic.”

“Such narrow-minded blinkered parochialism can only leave these campaigners looking even more desperate.”

“I mean, if this were Wales say, or Scotland, I dare say I could rabbit away about small-minded, provincial parochialism.”

“They rejected isolationism and nationalist parochialism and defended a conception of universal human values.”

“In Bulgaria, Detchko Uzunov might be a provincialist or a parochialist, but he surely was not a regionalist.”

“I never set out to be a parochialist, and I have had some success writing for wider audiences.”

“In the foreground is their condemnation of various parochialisms, patriotisms, and unchosen loyalties that limit personal autonomy and voluntarism.”