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P/P103/4/1/1/437
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File of personal letters and printed matter from, and about, writer Benedict Kiely and Frances Kiely, Dublin (and US), to Kilroy.
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- [1964]-09/2007 (creation)
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File of personal letters and printed matter from, and about, writer Benedict Kiely and Frances Kiely, Dublin (and US), to Kilroy. Private matters, including Kiely's health; mentioning work in US colleges; Kilroy's various dealings with Kiely's novel The Captain and the Whiskers ; Kiely's death, and high regard for Kilroy. On The Big Chapel , Kiely offers that "it's the sort of theme I'd love to handle if I c[oul]d be sure of doing it as well as you've done..." [1971]. Also including press cutting from the Sunday Independent , on 2004 reissuing of The Captain, with Kilroy's afterword; also information on the 6th annual Benedict Kiely Literary weekend, 2007.
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P103/ 580
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2116; 437
P103/437
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27/06/2013
25/06/2025