Volume 49, Number 7 · April 25, 2002

On Thomas Flanagan (1923–2002)

By Seamus Heaney

On March 16 this year Thomas Flanagan reviewed a history of St. Patrick's Day for The Irish Times and was identified by the paper's literary editor as 'a novelist and scholar...currently working on a book about Irish-American writers.' When he died in Berkeley from a heart attack five days later, he had submitted to this magazine his piece on William Kennedy and with that had completed a first draft of the work in progress.



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