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The Death of J.G Farrell

17/10/2017 GMT

The Death of JG Farrell

BBC World Service - Witness History, The Death of JG Farrell

The writer drowned off the south-west coast of Ireland in 1979.

The Booker prize-winning author drowned off the south-west coast of Ireland in 1979.  Hear from those who knew him, and an eyewitness account of his death.

The two-time Booker prize-winning author drowned off the south-west coast of Ireland in 1979. Vincent Dowd has been speaking to people who knew him, and to Pauline Foley who was the last person to see him alive.  

Photo: The road in front of Farrell's home in West Cork, leading down to the sea where he drowned.  Credit: BBC.

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