Book Review: The very English art of the final farewell in the Telegraph's Eccentric Lives collection

"There are several inclusions who were most certainly eccentric, though hardly registering on the Salvador Dali scale of pet-lobster quirkiness."

Bishop Eamon Casey outside his home in Firies near Killarney in 1974. Casey is the only ‘gilt-edged’ Irish person to feature in the Daily Telegraph’s Eccentric Lives anthology of obituaries. Picture: Donal MacMonagle

• Eccentric Lives: The Daily Telegraph Book of 21st Century Obituaries 
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