Item 1690 - Letters from Miriam O'Callaghan and Tom McGurk

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UGA P71/13/1/1690

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Letters from Miriam O'Callaghan and Tom McGurk

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  • [198-]-03/2005

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File with two letters, one from Tom McGurk, RTÉ broadcaster, making contact since he and his wife Miriam O'Callaghan, had with McGahern in 1982, updating on personal family news and asking id McGahern had thought of a film treatment for The Leavetaking.
Second letter is from RTÉ broadcaster Miriam O'Callaghan, writing following her watching of the "Arts Lives" documentary on RTÉ on McGahern. She talks in detail in response to McGahern's writing and life, calling him "truly one of life's special people".

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      09/06/2022
      29/07/2025

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