0007 Padraic Fiacc - Talking About Philosophy by PoetryJukebox Quotidian published on 2020-09-13T15:08:35Z Padraic Fiacc was Born in The Pound Loney, Lower Falls area of Belfast in 1924 and his family emigrated to New York in 1929. He returned to Belfast in 1946. He is the author of ‘Woe To The Boy’ for which he received the AE Award in 1957. By the Black Stream (Selected Poems 1947-1967) – 1969 Odour Of Blood 1973, The Wearing of the Black – 1974, Nights in a bad place – 1977, The Selected Padraic Fiacc - 1979 Missa Terribilis – 1986, Red Earth 1996 (Mythical Poems), Sempre Vacare, 1999, SEA: Sixty Years of Poetry, 2006, My Twenty Century Night Life - Miscellany, 2009 Ruined Pages: Selected Poems, 2012, In My Own Hand, 2012 Until his death in 2019 at age ninety-five years, he maintained a gentle demeanour, devoid of bitterness and still mesmerised by the beauty of nature and the world. Padraic Fiacc was the conscience internationale, the human rights advocate the anti-war voice - ‘War and famine are crimes against humanity!’ Photo & text courtesy of M McKernon, The Padraic Fiacc Archive, 2020 Genre Contemporary Poetry
