Life
1903-1962; [pseud. David Hogan], b. Cork; Cork Free Press; joined Irish Volunteers; worked with Erskine
Childers on Republican publicity staff, and ed. Irish Bulletin, 1919-1921; imprisoned
1920; joined hunger strike, 5–15 April 1920; fnd. ed. Irish Press, 1931; at behst of Eamon de Valera; wrote short stories
under several pseudonyms; works include Days of Fear: A Diary of the
Hunger Strike (1929) [DIB 1928], set in Mountjoy Prison during the war of Independence, ded. to Childers, and novels, The Challenge of the Sentry and Other Stories of the Irish War (1928) and Dark Mountain and Other Stories (1931); appt. deputy director of Radio Éireann, 1936; appt. director of the Government Information Bureau, 1939–48 and 1951-54; joined staff of the National Library to work on Dictionary of National Biography; issued Four
Glorious Years (1953), as David Hogan; Indivisible Island: A History
of the Partition of Ireland (1957; 1959); The Anglo-Irish Treaty,
ed. & intro. Thomas O’Neill (1965), part of
unfinished biography of de Valera; d. July 1962, Dublin. IF2 DIW DIB DIH DIL
Works
[Frank Gallagher,] Days of Fear: A Diary of the Hunger Strike [5
Apr. 1920 –15 Apr. 1920] (NY & London: Harper Bros. MCMXXIX [1929]),
175pp.; and Do. [rep. edn.] (Cork: Mercier Press 1967); [David
Hogan,] Four Glorious Years (1953); Indivisible Island: A History
of the Partition of Ireland (1957; 1959); The Anglo-Irish Treaty,
ed. & intro. Thomas O’Neill (London: Hutchinson 1965). Fiction
[as David Hogan], The Challenge of the Sentry and Other Stories
of the Irish War (Dublin: Talbot 1928); Dark Mountain and Other
Stories (Dublin & Cork: Talbot 1931).
Postcolonial readings: Gallagher is reading Henry Johnston’s Colonisation
and Africa in prison when he commences his hunger strike (Days
of Fear, 1929, p.9.)
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