Frank McDonald: 'I wanted to paint a picture of Ireland in the 50s and 60s - it was a different country'

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Frank McDonald: 'I wanted to paint a picture of Ireland in the 50s and 60s - it was a different country'
- In the book, he details being in London aged 17 in 1967, when the Sexual Offences Act decriminalised homosexual acts in private between men.
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