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Renowned bookshop owner and promoter of Irish writers
Maureen Kenny : SEAMUS HEANEY once described
Maureen Kenny, who has died aged 89, as "the Madonna of the
Manuscripts", an accurate description for a woman who devoted most
of her life to the promotion of new Irish writers and artists. p
Courageous pilot fought Nazis and opposed apartheid
Terence Lindsay Sandes : TERENCE LINDSAY Sandes, or Ben Sandes as he was always known to family and friends, who has died at the age of 89, was a South African who became by adoption in the early 1960s a Co Waterford farmer but who in a courageous and dramatic previous life had fought both the Nazis and apartheid. p
Exceptional Cambridge academic and mentor
Prof Paul O'Higgins : PROFESSOR PAUL O'Higgins who died on March 13th, 2008 at 80 years of age, was an internationally renowned academic, as well as a teacher and mentor of incomparable talent and achievements. p
A lawyer's lawyer and an actor's producer
Edward Farrell : EVEN THOUGH he had not been well for a while, the recent death of solicitor and impresario Edward Farrell was greeted with shock by his family, friends and the theatre community, the latter having lost a great champion. p
