Celebrated author Aidan Higgins dies, aged 88

The author Aidan Higgins died on Sunday, aged 88.

His work won international recognition but not to the degree that many admirers believed he deserved, despite the acknowledgement of his talent by Samuel Beckett among others.

Higgins was born in Celbridge, Co Kildare in 1927, and went to school at nearby Clongowes Wood College. He spent many years of his early life in Spain, South Africa, North and South Rhodesia, Berlin and London, but had lived in Kinsale, Co Cork since 1986.