Gerald Dawe papers

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Gerald Dawe papers

https://library.bc.edu/finding-aids/MS2000-016-finding-aid.pdf

The papers document the career of twentieth and twenty-first century Irish author Gerald Dawe as a poet, essayist, and academic, and consist of clippings, correspondence, ephemera, manuscripts and typescripts, notebooks, photographs, and scrapbooks.

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Boston College. John J. Burns Library

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