Fergus Pyle (17 March 1935 – 11 April 1997) was an Irish journalist, and editor of ''

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'' from 1974–1977. He was born in

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and educated at Aravon School in Bray, Campbell College, Belfast and Trinity College, Dublin, where he read Latin and French. He went on a scholarship to the

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, and spent a year as a stagiaire to the

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. Following this, he worked in

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where he edited ''Tuairim'' magazine. Notably, he interviewed Conor Cruise O'Brien in the immediate aftermath of the Congo Crisis, on the strength of which he recruited by ''The Irish Times''. His father William Pyle MRIA was an academic in the English Department in Trinity College Dublin.Fergus Pyle - Journalist
Dictionary of Ulster Biography. Fergus Pyle married to Mary Burrows, daughter of the actress Rachel Burrows. In 1967, he opened the Belfast office of ''The Irish Times'', and then opened the Paris office in 1971 prior to Ireland's entry into the Common Market, when he moved to

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in 1973. He took over editorship of the paper in 1974 and remained until 1977 when he left to become Information Officer at Trinity College, Dublin. He re-joined ''The Irish Times'' during Conor Brady's editorship. He spent some time in

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as Northern Editor. Following the fall of the Berlin Wall, he spent six months in

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. On his return from

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, he became chief editorial writer. He remained with ''The Irish Times'' until his death in 1997.

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