On the public library philanthropist and a writer's formation... For Sunday Miscellany on RTÉ Radio 1, listen to Carnegie and Me, by Aingeala Flannery above.
You are born in Waterford, seventy years after Andrew Carnegie laid the foundation stone for a public library on Lady Lane. You spend your early childhood half a mile up the road in a Corporation estate, where people don't talk about books or libraries or philanthropy.
You own a book called Fun with Dick and Jane. Jane’s a right goody-goody and if your brother ever ran into Dick, he’d give him an awful hiding. You can spell the word 'library’, but have no idea what it means.
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