Daughter Michele Viney says writer who worked to complete ‘Natural World’ right until the very end ‘died with his boots on’
Many people remarked how fitting it was that the final work of the nature writer, illustrator and journalist who died on May 30th, aged 90, should be launched in Letterfrack.
Letterfrack was also home to one of the many industrial schools that the campaigning journalist visited long before the country woke up to the cruelty inflicted on children incarcerated in such institutions. Viney once recalled that he visited the Letterfrack industrial school in 1966 – the same day as Nelson’s Pillar in Dublin was blown up – but unlike the city centre explosion, his report was met with universal indifference, generating just one letter to the editor.
Michele Viney said the book was her father’s swan song and he was still working on it days before he died. “The request for editing revisions came on a Wednesday and he died the following Tuesday. He died with his boots on,” said Ms Viney who had to respond to the publisher’s final queries after her father passed away.
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