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- [197-]-2006
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File of letters from Michael and Edna Longley to John and Madeline McGahern, includes thanks for support in "the Hewitt affair", separate letter thanks McGahern for pulling out of a summer school over the incident and with detail on the situation (1996), meeting with the McGaherns in Denmark; comments after McGahern visited to Belfast (1979); Letter from Edna to John from her base in Sweden as a Visiting Professor, thanking McGahern for reading at a Festival and adding comments on Seamus Heaney's Nobel Prize win (1996); Letter from Edna to John inviting him to read at Queen's University Belfast (1978).
Card with poem "The Blackthorn" from Edna Longley, with added comments about the breakdown of marriage of John and Janey Banville; Poem from Michael Longley, "The Rainbow" with note sent to John (!999); Poem in dedication to John McGahern, "Hawthorn", by Michael Longley and sent to Madeline McGahern following the funeral of John McGahern. (2006).
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18/05/2022
14/07/2025