‘Honest Abe’ most likely would not have been impressed by the failure of one Clare County Library service members to return a loaned book on the former US President after almost three decades.
A copy of ‘Makers of History; Abraham Lincoln’ by Herbert Agar was loaned out by the Clare County Council library service in 1987 but has only just been returned.
A volunteer from a local charity shop returned the book to Shannon Library after identifying it as library property when going through a pile of donated items.
‘Makers of History; Abraham Lincoln’ was first published by Collins, St James’s Place, London, in 1965.
A native of Ennis, Colin McGann has been editor of The Clare Champion since August 2020. Former editor of The Clare People, he is a journalism and communications graduate of Dublin Institute of Technology.