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Mon 05 May 2009Keeper of the literary flame
David Marcus (1924- 2009 ) dedicated his life to championing the work of emerging Irish writers. Now, on news of his death, he is saluted by a roll-call of Ireland's literary talent, writes
CAROLINE WALSH, Literary Editor
DAVID MARCUS, the editor of the immeasurably influential “New Irish Writing” pages in the Irish Pressnewspaper for decades, who died on Saturday aged 85 after a long illness, was the great mentor to an entire generation of Irish writers.
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