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P/P102/1/56
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Holograph letter (3 pp) from John [McGahern], Newcastle upon Tyne (England), to Niall Walsh, Ballinasloe.
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- 22/09/1975 (creation)
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Holograph letter (3 pp) from John [McGahern], Newcastle upon Tyne (England), to Niall Walsh, Ballinasloe. Details about their Paris property which they are letting for now. Meeting Madeline 's stepmother. Relating at length the way his brother-in-law died while his sister out of guilt tried to nurse him at home; satirical dialogue between her and her twin (his sisters). Gossip about Charles, Lennon, and Hamilton, whom they met in London. Séamus Heaney's permanent post in Carysfort Training College; an anecdote regarding him and his neighbour who mistook him on the radio for Séamus Twomey, then on the death list of the Ulster Defence Association. (Envelope establishes detail.)
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2116; 56
P102/56
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27/06/2013
24/06/2025