Hugh McFadden

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Hugh McFadden is an Irish poet, literary editor and freelance journalist.

He was born in Derry, lived briefly there and in Donegal, before moving to Dublin. There he was educated at Synge Street CBS and at University College Dublin, where he studied English, and History and Political Science for a BA degree. He also took an MA degree in Modern History at UCD and was a Tutor in the History Department there in the 1960s and early 70s. Later, he was a Tutor in Politics at UCD, and a Lecturer in Journalism at the DIT.

For many years he was a journalist (News Sub-Editor) with The Irish Press: at one stage he was an Assistant Chief Sub-Editor when the novelist John Banville was the paper’s Chief Sub-Editor. He regularly reviewed books for the Press Group of papers, as well as for Hibernia magazine, The Irish Independent, The Irish Times and The Sunday Tribune.

He was a History Researcher with The Irish Manuscripts Commission and an Editorial Assistant on ‘The Correspondence of Daniel O’Connell’ (8 vols). He is the Executor of the literary estate of the writer John Jordan, and has edited Jordan’s Collected Poems, Collected Stories, and Selected Prose: Crystal Clear (Lilliput Press, Dublin, 2006).

Three collections of his own poems have been published, the most recent being Elegies and Epiphanies: Selected Poems (Lagan Press, Belfast, 2005. His own previous collections are: Cities of Mirrors (Beaver Row Press, Dublin, 1984), and Pieces of Time (Lapwing Publications, Belfast, 2004)

He is working on a new book of poems to be called The Atomic Age.

Bibliography

Cities of Mirrors, Beaver Row Press (Dublin, 1984)

Pieces of Time, Lapwing Press (Belfast, 2004)

Elegies & Epiphanies, Lagan Press (Belfast, 2005)