Higgins, Aidan Charles (1927–2015), writer, was born in Celbridge, Co. Kildare, on 3 March 1927, the third of four sons of Bartholomew (‘Bart’) Joseph Higgins (1891–1969), whose family, originally from Boyle, Co. Roscommon, had settled in Longford. Bart met and married Lillian Blanche…