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To: The local community, Leitrim people at home and abroad, the Arts Community and Political and Community Leaders
McGahern Gateway Centre, Ballinamore, County Leitrim
The McGahern Gateway Centre is a must for the disused Courthouse in Ballinamore, a landmark building in its own right. This development will be an economic gamechanger for the town and surrounding areas, recognising in a single move a global giant of literature who was also a native of the Ballinamore area.
Why is this important?
This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to positively influence the trajectory of one of the most interesting and friendly small towns in Ireland with a project which can transform the heart of the town and provide a tourism and visitor hub and attraction for one of the most beautiful surrounding areas, populated with greenways, lakes, walks and other visitor attractions just waiting to be discovered, many of which are wonderfully recalled in the works of the great writer.
The McGahern Gateway Centre will provide the opportunity to harness and coalesce in one place the significant local, national and global interest in one the most evocative, elegiac and poetic of prose writers on the world stage of this or any age and to honour and illustrate his life's work in his home town with a centre of appropriate ambition, quality and scale equal to the writer's towering achievements.
This project has, of course, the full support of the writer's family.
The McGahern Gateway Centre will provide the opportunity to harness and coalesce in one place the significant local, national and global interest in one the most evocative, elegiac and poetic of prose writers on the world stage of this or any age and to honour and illustrate his life's work in his home town with a centre of appropriate ambition, quality and scale equal to the writer's towering achievements.
This project has, of course, the full support of the writer's family.