Hugh McFadden is an Irish poet,

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Early life

McFadden was born in Derry, where he lived very briefly, and then moved to

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, his father's birthplace, before moving to

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. There he was educated at the

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and at

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(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

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(DIT).

Career

For many years McFadden was a journalist and sub-editor at ''

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''. At one point he was Assistant Chief Sub-Editor to the novelist

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's Chief Sub-Editor. He regularly reviewed books for the Press Group of papers, as well as ''

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'' magazine, the ''

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'', ''

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'' and the ''

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''. Currently, he reviews for the magazine '' Books Ireland''. He was a History Researcher with The

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and an Editorial Assistant on ''The Correspondence of Daniel O'Connell'' (8 volumes). He is the executor of the

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of John Jordan, and has edited Jordan's ''Collected Poems'' (Dedalus Press, 1991), ''Collected Stories'' (Poolbeg Press, 1991), ''Selected Prose: Crystal Clear'' (Lilliput Press, Dublin, 2006) and ''The Selected Poems of John Jordan'' (Dedalus Press, February 2008). Five collections of his own poems have been published, the most recent being ''Further On Up the Road'' (Revival Press, Limerick, 2020; and ''Empire of Shadows'' (Salmon Poetry, 2012). Lagan Press, of Belfast, published his Selected Poems, ''Elegies and Epiphanies'', in 2005. His previous collections are: ''Cities of Mirrors'' (Beaver Row Press, Dublin, 1984), and ''Pieces of Time'' (Lapwing Publications, Belfast, 2004). ''Empire of Shadows'' develops and interrogates themes of war and peace first examined in his Selected Poems. Some of the verses look at the effects of carpet-bombing of cities in the Second World War, the destruction by atomic bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Blitz in London, the targeting of German cities by Britain’s Bomber Command, the fire-bombing of Tokyo, as well as the mass violence of more recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. In 2020 the Limerick-based publishing house Revival Press published his fifth collection of poems entitled Further On Up the Road. In May, 2019, The Limerick Writers Centre published McFadden's Selected Prose, entitled Organic Words, a compilation of essays, newspaper articles, reviews and magazine pieces written over a literary and journalistic career of 50 years. Among the magazines and newspapers in which these pieces of prose were published were: Books Ireland, Broadsheet, Cyphers, The Dictionary of Irish Biography, Irish Book Review, Irish University Review, Poetry Ireland Review, The Stony Thursday Book, Hibernia, The Irish Independent, The Irish Press, The Sunday Press and The Sunday Tribune.

Works

* ''Cities of Mirrors'', Beaver Row Press (Dublin, 1984) * ''Pieces of Time'',

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(Belfast, 2004) * ''Elegies & Epiphanies'', Lagan Press (Belfast, 2005) * ''Empire of Shadows'', Salmon Poetry (Cliffs of Moher, 2012) * ''Organic Words: Selected Prose'', Limerick Writers Centre (Limerick, Ireland, 2019) * ''Further On Up the Road'', Revival Press (Limerick, 2020)

As editor

* ''The Collected Poems of John Jordan'', Dedalus Press (Dublin, 1991) * ''The Collected Stories of John Jordan'',

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(Dublin, 1991) * ''Crystal Clear: Selected Prose of John Jordan'', Lilliput Press (Dublin, 2006) * ''Selected Poems. John Jordan'', Dedalus Press (Dublin, 2008)

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