Pauline Flanagan

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Pauline Flanagan (June 29, 1925 – June 28, 2003) was a County Sligo, Irish Free State-born actress who had a long career on stage.

Her family was deeply political and supported the Republican (anti-Treaty) side during the Irish Civil War. Both of her parents served as Lords Mayor of Sligo. Pauline Flanagan had a brother who supported the Irish Republican Army (IRA) during the Irish Civil War. She was good friends with fellow actresses Joan O'Hara (with whom she attended an Ursuline Convent school in Sligo) and the English-born Irish actress Paddy Croft.

Flanagan was close friends with British playwright Harold Pinter, whom she met while he was a young actor touring with the company of noted Shakespearean actor/manager Anew McMaster.

She died one day before her 78th birthday of heart failure following a battle with lung cancer.

She is survived by her husband, George Vogel (whom she had married in 1958) and her two children. She is also survived by one sister, Maura McNally.

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In 1997 she won an award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her role in Jennifer Johnston's Desert Lullaby, at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast.

In 2001 she won an Olivier Award for her performance in Frank McGuinness' Dolly West's Kitchen.

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