Life
1933- ; son of Padraic Fallon and Dorothea (née Maher), dg. of
Dublin builder; brs. Garry, Brian, Conor (sculptor), Padraic, Ivan (Financial
Times exec.), Niall; introduced to Irish Times at 19 through his
father’s friendship with the editor R. M. Smyllie; enrolled as classics
student, TCD, sub-editing at night; left TCD after two years; m. journalist
Marion Fitzgerald; art critic and Chief Critic of The Irish Times;
chief author for Gandon series on Irish artists; appt. Chairman of the
Arts Council, 1996 [cf. Banville].
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Edward McGuire (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 1991), 143pp.; Irish Art 1830-1990 (Belfast: Appletree Press 1994); Charles Tyrrell (Dublin: Gandon 1994); Martin Gale (Dublin: Gandon 1995) [No. 19]; Sean McSweeney (Dublin: Gandon 1996); An Age of Innocence (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1998).
Miscellaneous
Contrib. essay to Henry Flanagan, OP: Preacher in Stone (Dublin: Riverbank Arts Centre 2003). See also a very large number of articles in the Irish Times espec. during his period of tenure as Senior Art..
Bibliographical
details
An Age of Innocence (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan
1998). CONTENTS, Chapter 1: In Perspective [1]; Chapter 2: Begging the
Question [19]; Chapter 3: A Disinherited Culture [27]; Chapter 4: Yeats
Centre Stage [39]; Chapter 5: Joyce and the Exile Tradition [59]; Chapter
6: Founding Fathers [73]; Chapter 7: Second Generation [95]; Chapter 8:
The Poets after Yeats [107]; Chapter 9: The French Connection [123]; Chapter
10: The Theatre [133]; Chapter 11: The Literary Pubs [149]; Chapter 12:
The Irish Language [159]; Chapter 13: Gaels and Anglo-lrish [173]; Chapter
14: The Church [183]; Chapter: 15: The Literary Censorship {201]; Chapter
16 :Neutrality and de Valera [211]; Chapter 17: Press and Periodicals
[225]; Chapter 18: The Visual Arts [237]; Chapter 19: Musical Life and
Lives [247]; Chapter 20: The Fifties [257 ]. References 273]; Bibliography
285]; Index [295].
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Eileen Battersby, ‘A Self-made Critic’, in The Irish Times, 5 Nov. 1998, p.15.
"Trinity Weekend", in Irish Times, 9 May 1992
Edna Longley, The Living Stream: Literature and Revisionism in Ireland, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne: Bloodaxe 1994, p.17-18.
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)