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The Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame has added an important Dutch still life by a follower of Osias Beert I to its collection of seventeenth-century European art. "It is a great pleasure to welcome this fine painting into the permanent collection as it fills an important cultural and art historical…
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Maurice Leitch, who died this year, left us vivid portraits of Antrim mill villages in decline, tense Border communities and Troubles-torn Belfast
His novels were banned in the Republic of Ireland for depicting homosexuality, and angered Loyalists for depicting Protestant violence
Radio drama producer and writer whose novel Poor Lazarus won the Guardian fiction prize in 1969
Acclaimed Northern Ireland author and broadcaster Maurice Leitch has died aged 90 at his home in Faversham, Kent.