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Article: Friend found over 80 letters written by John McGahern
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- The Irish Times
- Article date:
- July 24, 2009
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THE RECENT discovery of a large collection of letters written
over many years by the writer John McGahern was described last night
at the opening the third international seminar in his native
Leitrim.
The John McGahern International Seminar and Summer School, which
is organised by the National University of Ireland, Galway, and
Leitrim County Council, continues in Carrick on Shannon, today and
tomorrow.
Dr Niall Walsh, a retired pathologist from Ballinasloe, Co
Galway, knew McGahern better than most of those present, having
first become friendly with the young Dublin-based teacher in the
1960s.
Dr Walsh surprised himself and staff at NUIG, where the McGahern
archive is based, when a week ...