Life
1951- ; b. Germany, moving with family to a farm in Co. Meath, 1957; ed.
St Gerards School, Bray, and Ampleforth; left school at 16; commenced Meath Poetry
Group with a reading in Navan, 1968, publishing contributions under imprint of Tara
Telephone; studied at TCD; fnd. Gallery Press,
1970, and and later at his home in
Loughcrew, Oldcastle, Co. Meath; appt. poet-in-residence, Deerfield Academy,
Mass., 1976-77; ed. The Second Voyage (1977); co-ed. The First
Ten Years [Dublin Arts Fest. Poetry] (1979); ed., with Sean Golden,
Soft Day: Miscellany of Contemporary Irish Writing (1979); also
editor of O’Brien Press Irish Classic Fiction series; farms at Loughcrew,
Co. Meath; sabbatical year at Deerfield Academy, Massachusetts, 1997;
composed Deerfield series on occasion of the college’s bicentenary;
papers of Gallery Press are held at Emory University (Atlanta); first
holder of Charles A. Heinbold Chair of Irish Studies at Villanova U.,
Penn., to be followed by Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill; trans. Georgics of Virgil (2004), and issued a play, Tarry Flynn (2004), based on Patrick Kavanagh’s novel and produced in Bethlehem, Penn., Sept. 2004; translated the “Georgics” of Virgil (2004). DIL OCIL FDA
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Among the Walls (1971); Co-incidence of Flesh (Dublin: Gallery Press 1973); The First Affair [Gallery Books, No. 19] (Dublin: Gallery Press 1974), 40 [4]pp.; A Gentler Birth (1976); Victims (1977); Finding the Dead (1978); The Speaking Stones (Dublin: Gallery Press 1978), drawings by Timothy Engelland, 58[62]pp.; Winter Work (Dublin: Gallery Press 1983); News and Weather (Dublin: Gallery Press 1987); Eye to Eye (Dublin: Gallery Press 1992); News of the World (Gallery/Wake UP 1993); also, Laurence Gilson and the Gilson Endowed School, Oldcastle (After Hours Books 1996), 15pp.; trans., The Georgics of Virgil (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2004) [q.pp.]
Drama
Tarry Flynn (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2004), 102pp.
Miscellaneous
Ed. & intro., The Poems of Emily Lawless [An Chomhairle Ealaion/Irish authors ser.] (Dublin: Dolmen Press 1965), 52pp.; ed., with Sean Golden, Soft Day: A Miscellany of Contemporary Irish Writing (Dublin: Wolfhound /Notre Dame UP 1979); ed., with A. Carpenter, The Writers: A Sense of Ireland (O’Brien Press/NY: George Braziller 1981) [infra]; ed. with Derek Mahon, The Penguin Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry (Penguin 1990).
‘A Passion for Poetry: 25 Years of the Gallery Press’ [interview-article], in Books Ireland interview (Feb. 1995), pp.7-8, and a short piece in Gerald Dawe & Jonathan Williams, eds., Krino “The State of Poetry” [special issue] (Winter 1993), pp.16-17; ‘Virgil - from the Georgics’ [translated by Peter Fallon], in Metre (Autumn 2004), pp.9-27 [infra].
Andrew Carpenter & Peter Fallon, eds., The Writers: Sense of Ireland (Dublin: O’Brien Press, 1980) [sub-title:] New work by 44 Irish writers selected and edited by Andrew Carpenter and Peter Fallon, with photographs of the writers by Mike Bunn. CONTENTS, Introduction [8]; John Banville, from Kepler a novel [10]; Samuel Beckett, ‘Heard in the Dark’, an extract from Company a novel [16]; Eavan Boland, ‘the Ballad of Beauty and Time’ [20]; Eilean Ni Chuilleanain, Four Poems from The Rose Geranium [24]; ‘Seamus Deane, ‘Christmas at Beaconsfield’, excerpt from a long poem [28]; Paul Durcan, ‘The Drimoleague Blues’ [32]; Peter Fallon, Two Poems, ‘Catholics’, and ‘Confederates’ [34]; Brian Friel, extracts from a Sporadic Diary, most do to with the writing of the play which eventually became Aristocrats [38]; Michael Hartnett, Three poems [with footnote trans.], ‘Fé Dhéinn na dTig Nua’; ‘An Droichead go Meiricéa’; ‘An Chúifhionn’ [44]; Seamus Heaney, Three poems, ‘A Peacock’s Feather’, for Daisy Garnett; ‘Sweeney Astray’, for John Montague; ‘A Lighting Plot’, for Brian Friel [50]; John Hewitt, ‘Five Poems, ‘The Irish Dimenson’; ‘The Prisoners on the Roof’; ‘A Case of Mistaken Identity’; ‘The Magician’, from ‘The Troubles, 1922’; ‘Consequences’, sequence from ‘My Uncle’ [56]; Aidan Higgins, ‘Retrograde Canon at Atepmoc’. from Dog-Days, a novel [60]; Denis Johnston, ‘The Abbey in Those Days’, a memoir [66]; Jennifer Johnston, ‘Extract from a Novel’ [72]; Neil Jordan, ‘She’, an unfinished story [78]; Brendan Kennelly, Three poems, ‘Always’; ‘The Pilgrim’; ‘Goddess’ [82]; Benedict Kiely, ‘Homeward Bound’, part of the opening of a novel to be called, perhaps, Nothing Happens in Carmincross [86]; Thomas Kilroy, from ‘Her Whiteness Attracts a Blackness’, an extract from a novel [92]; Thomas Kinsella, four love poems, literal translations from the Irish (‘My own dark head ...’) [98]; Mary Lavin, from ‘A Walk on the Cliff’, a story [102]; Michael Longley, Four poems, ‘The white Butterfly’; ‘The Third Light’; ‘Ogham Stone’, i.m. Seán Ó Baoill; ‘Communications’ [108]; Thomas McCarthy, ‘Bachelard’s Images’ [112]; Tomas Mac Siomoin, Three poems, ‘Ceol na dTéad’; ‘Féileachán’; ‘Eadartheangachadh’ [114]; Aidan Mathews, Four poems, ‘Untitled’; ‘Talismans’; ‘Affidavit’; ‘Neighbours’ [118]; John Montague, Poems from Sect. III of The Dead Kingdom, ‘The Black Pig’; ‘Border’; ‘The Plain of Blood’ [122]; John Morrow, from Prologue ‘68, a novel [128]; Paul Muldoon, Three poems, ‘The Bishop’; ‘Promises, Promises’; ‘Bran’ [134]; Richard Murphy, Three poems, ‘Morning Call’; ‘Tony white at Inisbofin 1959’; ‘Husbandry’ [138]; Thomas Murphy, Prologue to The Blue Macushla, a play [142]; Seán Ó Faoláin, ‘What it feels like to be a Writer’, a talk for radio [148]; Liam O’Flaherty, ‘The Widow’, an unfinished story [154]; Desmond O’Grady, Three poems, ‘One of Them’, after Cavafy; ‘The People of Maikop Plain’; ‘Waiting for the Barbarian’, after Cavafy [158]; Liam O Muirthile, Three Poems, ‘Inné Inniu’; ‘Rince Gréagach’; ‘Feartlaoi François Villon’ [162]; Frank Ormsby, Three Poems, ‘The Sleepwalker’; from ‘A Belfast Journal (VII); ‘The Security Man’ [167]; Cathal Ó Searcaigh, For Poems, [breif and unnamed] [170]; Seán Ó Tuama, Three Poems (English versions of poems in Irish) ‘Where shall we walk?’; ‘The Poet to his Wife’, from a three act play Four Cheers for Cremation; ‘A Gaeltacht Rousseau’ [172]; Micheal Ó Siadhail, Three poems, ‘Breaclach’; Réavadh’; ‘sorcas’ [176]; Stewart Parker, Two scenes from Catchpenny Twist: A Charade [180]; Tom Paulin, ‘Desertmartin: A poem’ [186]; James Plunkett, ‘Ferris Moore’, from a novel in progress [188]; Peter Sheridan, from Down All the Days, an adaptation of the novel by Christy Brown [190]; James Simmons, ‘The Conservative’ [poem in 5 pts.]; [196]; Francis Stuart, from The High Consistory, a novel [202]; William Trevor, from ‘Autumn Sunshine’, a story [208]; Notes on the writers [213]. Note, pagination of photo-page preceeding each author’s text give above.
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Criticism
Books Ireland (Nov. 1994), interview article at 25 years of Gallery
Press; also ‘Poetry in Action’, interview by Louise East in
Irish Times (6 June 1998) [with photo-port.] noting Fallon’s
essay ‘Notes on a History of publishing Poetry’ in Princeton
University Library Chronicle.
Dillon Johnston, ‘“My Feet
on the Ground”, An interview with Peter Fallon, in Irish Literary
Supplement (Fall 1995), pp.4-5. Interview followed by ‘Tributes
to Peter Fallon, 25 Years of Gallery Press’, contribs. Seamus Heaney,
Brian Friel, Lar Cassidy, Medbh McGuckian, pat Donlon, Thomas Kilroy,
John Banville, Conor O’Callaghan.
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Notes
Seamus Deane, gen. ed., Field Day Anthology (Derry:
Field Day 1991), Vol. 3: selects from Winter Work, ‘My Care’,
‘Dung’, ‘Winter Work’, ‘The Heart of Ireland’
[1417-18; BIOG, 1436 [as above].
Hibernia Books (Catl. 1996) lists Fallon and Dennis O’Driscoll, eds., The First Ten Years [Dublin Arts Festival 1979], poems by Eacan Boland, Seamus Heaney, Jhn Hewitt, Brendan Kennelly, Michael Longley, Paul Muldoon, et al.
Gallery Press was first established at 19 Oakdown Rd, Dublin 14, and after at Loughcrew [Oldcastle] Co. Meath; also given as Dublin: Gallery Press in some bibliographical contexts.
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)