Desmond MacNamara
Posted at 7:51AM Thursday 24 Apr 2008
Desmond MacNamara, who has died aged 89, was an incorrigibly whimsical sculptor, a stage designer, an art lecturer, literary critic, the inspiration for the character MacDoon in his friend JP Donleavy's famous Dublin novel The Ginger Man, and a fine novelist himself in his later years.
Obituary in The Guardian
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