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On a dusty shelf in the Linen Hall Library in Belfast, 麻豆社 producer Ian Dougan came across a book detailing a forgotten collection of poignant letters between an English soldier and his Irish sweetheart. Eric Appleby was a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery and was sent for training to Athlone in County Westmeath/Roscommon. It was here that he met local girl Phyllis Kelly at a dance. Eric was later moved to the Western Front but they kept in touch in a series of extraordinary letters set amid the horror of the First World War that were later collected in a book by Phyllis鈥檚 niece by marriage, Jean Kelly. The letters have now been dramatised in a major 137-part series on 麻豆社 Radio Ulster by the same name - Love Letters from the Front.

Image: Phyllis Kelly and Eric Appleby taken in August 1915
Location: Athlone, County Roscommon/Westmeath
Eric Appelby played by: Ruair铆 Tohill
Phyllis Kelly played by: R贸is铆n Gallagher