Irish spinster leaves €5.5m to top festival
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Aug. 12, 2006

A DUBLIN spinster has stunned the organisers of the Edinburgh International Festival by bequeathing it €5.5m to help support young artists. It is the single biggest gift in the festival’s 47-year history.

Lean Scully, a veteran public relations consultant who died aged 72 last year, religiously attended the internationally renowned festival for more than a decade. She was a well-known face at its classical concerts and had promised staff she would “see you right when I’m gone”. But the bequest still came as a shock.

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Irish spinster leaves €5.5m to top festival
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