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Members of the public wait anxiously to have their copies of ‘Reading in the Dark’ signed by the author Seamus Deane.
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OF TIMES GONE BY: Derry and Inishowen in pictures - September 1996
By The Newsroom
Published 17th Sep 2021, 16:55 BST
In September 1996 the Derry Journal was inundated with phone calls complaining about what one angry reader called a ‘malodorous stench’ that had taken over the city in recent days; Garda checkpoints along Donegal border crossings, in existence since the emergence of the BSE crisis in March, continued; Strabane District Council was told it had a ‘moral duty’ to buy a collection encompassing the life and works of one of the town’s most famous literary sons, Brian O’Nolan - aka Flann O’Brien.