Padraic Fallon
Padraic Fallon (1905 - 1974) was an Irish poet who was born in Athenry, County Galway, and later moved to Dublin to work as a civil servant. Here he became friends with the poet AE George William Russell who encouraged him as a writer and was the first to print his poems. Padraic Fallon also formed friendships with Seumas O'Sullivan and Patrick McDonogh. He later left Dublin to spend over twenty years as a Customs and Excise official in County Wexford where he lived and farmed with his wife, Dorothea, and his six sons.[1]
In 1951, the first of Fallon's verse plays for radio, 'Diarmuid and Grainne, was broadcast over Radio Eireann. It was followed by 'The Vision of Mac Conglinne, 'Steeple Jerkin', The Poplar' and others, all of which were hailed by critics as landmarks both in Irish broadcasting and modern Irish writing. Several of these poetic plays were later performed on BBC3 and in Germany and Holland. While many of his poems had previously appeared in anthologies, periodicals such as The Dublin Magazine and in newspapers such as the 'Irish Times', his first book, Poems, only appeared in 1974, the very year that he died.[1] Poems and Versions was published posthumously in 1983 (Carcanet/Raven).
Most of Fallon's work has since been published posthumously.
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- A Look in the Mirror (2003) ISBN 1-85754-642-3, foreword by Eavan Boland
- The Vision of MacConglinne : and Other Plays (2005) ISBN 1-85754-663-6
- A Hymn of the Dawn (1991) ISBN 1-84351-036-7
- Poems and Versions by Dolmen Press, (1983) ISBN 0-85635-431-7
- Poems (1974) ISBN 0-85105-235-5
