Item 507 - Correspondence and some press cuttings relating to "Minority Verdict"

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Correspondence and some press cuttings relating to Minority Verdict, also some thanking him for copies of Sweet Killough. Includes letters from colleagues suggesting amendments and adding to some of the stories in the book. Also, letter from McBurney & Co. solicitors on behalf of Ian Paisley taking issue with the assertion in Minority Report that their client had approached the author proposing some sort of a meeting with paramilitaries on both sides, saying that this never happened (17 July 1995); letter from Chris Patten, Governor of Hong Kong to Maurice thanking him for his copy of Sweet Killough (16 June 1994); letter from Gabrielle Thuston (nee Denvir) congratulating him on Sweet Killough and for his memories of her mother and father who ran the hotel before Maurice’s mother took it over (3 Aug 1994); letter from Anne Tannahill, The Blackstaff Press, to Maurice Hayes apologising and explaining the failure of the books to arrive in Listowel for the launch of Sweet Killough during Writers’ Week (6 June 1994); Response from Maurice reporting on the launch, and commenting on his worries in terms of the promotion of the book, commenting that any publicity has been through his own personal contacts (6 June 1994); Congratulations from Michael Mills, Ombudsman, Dublin to Maurice Hayes for “Sweet Killough” (13 July 1994) and many others.

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23/02/2018
23/02/2018