Richard Fariña – from Lough Neagh to Monterey




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Summary: Richard Fariña was well known in music and literary circles in New York in the 1960’s, counting Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and Thomas Pynchon among his friends. He was a regular visitor to his Irish relations in Ardboe, Co. Tyrone in the 1950’s. He was on the cusp of greatness 50 years ago when his life was cut short. Tracing Fariña’s footsteps from his old haunts in New York to his family by the banks of Lough Neagh. (2016)