Life
Presbyterian minister of Townsend St.; joined RAF in wartime; suffered
accident, enduring painful hospitalisation; Poems of a Parachute Padre,
by J. W. Johnston (Beflast: Quota Press 1943) [1st Edn. Nov. 1943; 1nd
Edn. Dec. 1943], 73pp.; photo. port. of goodlooking young man; ‘laid
aside by an unfortunate accident’; poems on war, graveyards (in peace
time), and hospital; celebrates towns of Tyrone in archaic poetic diction
(‘Thine is the ...’); well-made more modern quatrains on less
nostalgic subjects (‘The Diver’).
Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)