Witness History: Witness Archive 2017 - The Death of JG Farrell

The two-time Booker prize-winning author drowned off the south-west coast of Ireland in 1979. Vincent Dowd has been speaking to people who knew him, and to Pauline Foley who was the last person to see him alive.

Photo: The road in front of Farrell's home in West Cork, leading down to the sea where he drowned. Credit: BBC.

Published on Tuesday, 17th October 2017.

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