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Northshore October 2025
You don’t get much more private than longtime Gloucester resident Bill Monahan. The man who penned the script for one of Boston’s most iconic movies, The Departed, prefers to keep himself to himself, as they say back in Ireland—where his family originated. Of course, it’s a little tough to lay low when you’ve been anointed with a slew of big-time awards (including that trifling thing, the Oscar) and are one of the most sought-after American screenwriters of your time. But Monahan, who was born in Dorchester before moving to and growing up in Gloucester, where he’s lived part-time since the 1970s, has manag
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