Kevin Faller (1920–1983) was an Irish

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. Faller was born in

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. His paternal grandparents were

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refugees from the

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in Baden-Wuerttemberg, and had opened a

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shop in 1879 on Williamsgate Street, in the city centre. He moved to

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in 1945, working with book publishers, on newspaper editorial staff and wrote

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scripts.

Select bibliography

* ''Genesis'' (a novel),

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, TV Boardman, 1953 * ''Lyrics'',

, Colm O’Lochlainn, 1963 * ''Lament for Bull Island and Other Poems'', Dublin, The Goldsmith Press, 1973 * ''The Lilac Tree and Other Poems'', Dublin, St Beuno's Press, 1979 * ''Memoirs: Collected Poems'',

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, Tracks, 1984 * ''Irish Poetry of Faith and Doubt:The Cold Heaven'', ed. John F. Deane, Wolfhound Press, 1990.

References

* ''Galway Authors'', Helen Mahar, 1976 * http://www.ricorso.net/rx/az-data/index.htm Ricorso * https://web.archive.org/web/20091004191229/http://www.irishwriters-online.com/kevinfaller.html {{DEFAULTSORT:Faller, Kevin Writers from Galway (city) 1983 deaths 1920 births Irish people of German descent 20th-century Irish poets 20th-century Irish male writers