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Pauline Flanagan was a County Sligo, Irish-born actress who had a long career on stage. American television audiences best knew her as Maeve Ryan's sister, Annie Colleary on the soap opera Ryan's Hope in 1979 and again in 1981. She later returned to the show as Sister Mary Joel.
Her family was deeply political and supported the Republican side during the Irish Civil War. Both of her parents served as Lords Mayor of Sligo. She was good friends with fellow actresses Joan O'Hara and the English-born Irish actress Paddy Croft, as well as British playwright Harold Pinter, whom she met while he was a young actor touring with the company of noted Shakespearean actor/manager Andrew McMaster.
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