Hugh McFadden is an Irish poet, literary editor, executor and freelance journalist.
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McFadden was born in Derry, Northern Ireland, where he lived briefly, and then moved to County Donegal, Republic of Ireland, before moving to Dublin. There he was educated at the Synge Street CBS and at University College Dublin (UCD), where he studied English, History and Political Science, before taking a BA (Hons) degree in History and Politics.
He earned an MA degree in Modern History at UCD and was a Tutor in the History Department there in the 1960s and early 1970s. Later, he was a Tutor in Politics at UCD and a Lecturer in Journalism at the Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT).
For many years McFadden was a journalist and subeditor at The Irish Press. At one point he was Assistant Chief Sub-Editor to the novelist John Banville's Chief Sub-Editor. He regularly reviewed books for the Press Group of papers, as well as Hibernia magazine, the Irish Independent, The Irish Times and the Sunday Tribune. Currently he reviews for the magazine Books Ireland.
He was a History Researcher with The Irish Manuscripts Commission and an Editorial Assistant on The Correspondence of Daniel O'Connell (8 volumes). He is the executor of the literary estate of John Jordan, and has edited Jordan's Collected Poems (Dedalus Press, 1991), Collected Stories (Poolbeg Press, 1991), Selected Prose: Crystal Clear[1] (Lilliput Press, Dublin, 2006) and The Selected Poems of John Jordan (Dedalus Press, February 2008).
Three collections of his own poems have been published, the most recent being Elegies and Epiphanies: Selected Poems (Lagan Press, Belfast, 2005. His previous collections are: Cities of Mirrors (Beaver Row Press, Dublin, 1984), and Pieces of Time (Lapwing Publications, Belfast, 2004). McFadden is currently working on a new book of poems (Empire of Shadows).