Item 670 - Letter from Colbert Kearney

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Letter from Colbert Kearney, Riverstown, Cork to Eugene Watters, saying that he now has a daughter called Sally and that he is delighted. He is hoping to be finished correcting scripts in a week and to more from Cork libraries in the search of Behan material. He comments that he is reworking what he has written, but that no publisher seems interested in the topic. Gives him news from the Department of English, they are about to have a new Professor of Old and Middle English, and that Sean Lucy and John Montague are reading poems everywhere. Asks what he thinks of Seamus Heaney "a fine minor poet, methoughts, who will do himself an injury soon by getting out of his depth. …One of the few around with genuine seriousness." He hears that Mick Lillis has a fine novel in Irish which he is refusing to publish, and wonders if that is true. He gives news of a visit by Robert Graves. He is looking forward to getting to Dublin and having a few pints with his father.

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