The death has taken place of the award-winning journalist and author, Claire Boylan.
Clare Boylan, who died yesterday
Ms Boylan, who was 58, died yesterday evening after a long illness.
Born in Dublin in April 1948, Ms Boylan was a journalist and critic for newspapers, magazines and many international broadcast media. In 1974, she won the Benson & Hedges Award for outstanding journalism. Her novels included
Holy Pictures
(1983),
Last Resorts
(1984),
Black Baby
(1988),
Home Rule
(1992) and
Beloved Stranger
(1999).
Director of the Arts Council, Mary Cloake expressed regret at Ms Boylan's death. "Throughout her distinguished career, Clare Boylan conjured, through a repertoire of stories, fiction and non-fiction, a body of work which is impressed indelibly in contemporary literature," Ms Cloake said. A member of Aosdána, Ms Boylan is survived by her husband, Alan Wilkes.