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Rang Vinny at Charlie Byrnes bookshop. He asked, “Jack, how’s the Synge studies going?”
“Good. Listen, do you remember Professor O’Shea?”
“Of course I do. I introduced you to him in here: he’s the expert on Synge. You should really go and have a talk with him if you want detailed insight.”
“That’s what I want all right.”
Vinny hesitated then,
“Use a bit of tact, Jack.”
“What?”
“His wife died a few years back and they were childless. I think he’s probably lonely.”
“I know how that goes.”
“We got some new stock in: Daniel Buckman, K.T. McCaffrey, John Straley, Declan Burke, like that.”
“Put them aside for me.”
“Don’t I always?”
“I owe you a pint.”
“You owe me a fleet of pints.”
Click.
The telephone directory had the professor listed.
29, The Crescent Galway
Old Galway, m
