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A copy of 'Makers of History; Abraham Lincoln' which was returned to Clare County Library 29 years after it was first loaned out.

Book returned to library after 29-year loan


‘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.

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