In wild, wet January weather, two months after Mr Waldron’s death, Mrs Waldron and her daughter, Eileen, closed their big house outside Castlebar and moved to their summer cottage on Achill.
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‘They alone among all the creatures of the earth would never have to go that way.’
In wild, wet January weather, two months after Mr Waldron’s death, Mrs Waldron and her daughter, Eileen, closed their big house outside Castlebar and moved to their summer cottage on Achill.
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John McGahern’s last book was Memoir (Faber/Knopf). His novels include The Barracks and Amongst Women (Faber/Penguin). He died in March 2006.
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