Terry Prone: Storied minutiae of my past will be an asset to researchers of the future

Here’s a sentence that I never thought I would write: I have donated my papers to the National Library of Ireland (NLI).

Imagine. Such notions. You expect presidents and former ministers to give their records to the NLI, and the same expectation applies to writers going back to the days of The Bell. 

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