Shan Fadh Bullock (John William, 17 May 1865 – 27 February 1935) was an Irish writer. He was born at Inisherk in

Fermanagh Historically, Fermanagh (), as opposed to the modern County Fermanagh, was a kingdom of Gaelic Ireland, associated geographically with present-day County Fermanagh. ''Fir Manach'' originally referred to a distinct kin group of alleged Laigin or ...

and died in

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. He attended

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in County Westmeath, he failed the

Trinity College Dublin Trinity College Dublin (), officially titled The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, and legally incorporated as Trinity College, the University of Dublin (TCD), is the sole constituent college of the Unive ...

entrance exams and moved to London. He served on the secretariat of the

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. Bullock's works include 14 novels set in Ulster and he was admired by

J.M. Barrie Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, (; 9 May 1860 19 June 1937) was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered as the creator of Peter Pan. He was born and educated in Scotland and then moved to London, where he wrote several succ ...

and

Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Literary realism, Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry ...

. Bullock played for the

Authors Cricket Club The Authors Cricket Club is a wandering amateur English cricket club founded in 1899 and revived most recently in 2012. Prominent British writers including Arthur Conan Doyle, P. G. Wodehouse, A. A. Milne, E. W. Hornung and J. M. Barrie have bee ...

Works

*The awkward squads and other stories (London : Cassell, 1893.)
By Thrasna River (London : Ward, Lock & Bowden, 1895.)Ring o' rushes (London; New York : Ward, Lock, 1896.)
*The charmer : a seaside comedy (London : J. Bowden, 1897.)
The Barrys (London; New York : Harper & Brothers, 1899.)Irish Pastorals (London : Grant Richards, 1901.)The Squireen (London : Methuen, 1903)
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Robert Thorne (London : T. Werner Laurie 1907?)
*Master John (London : Laurie, 1909?)
Thomas Andrews, shipbuilder (Dublin; and London : Maunsel and company, ltd, 1912.)
*Mors et vita (London : T. Werner Laurie, 1923) *The Loughsiders (London : G.G. Harrap & co. ltd., 1924.) *Gleanings (Sutton, Surrey : William Pile, 1926?) *After sixty years (London : Sampson Low, Marston, 1931?)

References

External links

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Shan Bullock Manuscript Collection at Queen's University Belfast
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bullock, Shan 1865 births 1935 deaths Writers from County Fermanagh Male novelists from Northern Ireland 19th-century Irish novelists 20th-century novelists from Northern Ireland 20th-century British male writers