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P/P103/4/1/1/425
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File of personal holograph letters from poet Paul Durcan, Cork and Dublin, to Kilroy.
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- 10/01/1980-02/09/1989 (creation)
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File of personal holograph letters from poet Paul Durcan, Cork and Dublin, to Kilroy. Asking for an excerpt from his novel for The Cork Review; offering praise and detailed commentary on Talbot's Box (Cork 1980), The Death and Resurrection of Mr. Roche (Dublin 1989), also having enjoyed Double Cross. On Mr. Roche "Frank Conway's basement flat is every Dublin basement flat I have ever known. Sepulchral, ecclesiastical, cloacal, Gaudi-esque, Disney-esque, a sense of Père Lachaise" (18 May 1989).
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2116; 425
P103/425
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27/06/2013
28/07/2025