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Letters of an Irish minister of state / John B. Keane.

By: Keane, John B, 1928-2002 [author].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Dublin : Mercier press, 1978Description: 90 p. ; 18 cm.ISBN: 0853425620 .Subject(s): English wit and humor | Statesmen -- Ireland -- FictionDDC classification: 823.91
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General Lending MTU Bishopstown Library Store Item 823.91 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00025304
Total holds: 0

Sequel to Letters of a successful T. D.

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John B. Keane was born in Ireland on July 21, 1928. He attended St. Michael's College, Listowel. By 1945, he was apprenticed to a chemist in Listowel. He eventually took over a small public house and began to write. During his lifetime, he published 46 works including Sive, The Field, Big Maggie, The Streets and Other Poems, Sharon's Grave, Letters of a Matchmaker, Hut 42, Moll, and Durango.

In 1999 he won the first Irish PEN Award for Literature. Keane died from prostate cancer on May 30, 2002 at the age of 73.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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