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Clair L Sweeney

Date of Birth: 1 January 1970

Born in 1923, just after the foundation of the State, Clair was raised in the Liffey Valley near the Strawberry Beds, at a time when Palmerstown was a village remote from the hurly-burly of the city of Dublin. It was there that he inherited his lifelong love of the River Liffey. Clair had an enviable and unsurpassed knowledge of Dublin and its environs, particularly the waterways. His well researched Rivers of Dublin, published by Dublin Corporation in 1991, a richly illustrated and comprehensive guide to the rivers of Dublin, has become a collector's item. As a very readable historical and accurate description of the capital's waterways it has not been surpassed and is in itself a fitting memorial to his memory. Clair L. Sweeney died on June 15th, 1997.

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