Frank B. Gallagher (pseudo. David Hogan) (1893 – 1962) was an Irish author and Volunteer. Year 1893 ( MDCCCXCIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Year 1962 ( MCMLXII) was a Common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Irish people ( Irish: Muintir na hÉireann, na hÉireannaigh, na Gaeil) are a Western European Ethnic group who originate An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created The Irish Volunteers ( Óglaigh na hÉireann) was a military organisation established in 1913 by Irish nationalists.
Biography
A Cork native, initially editor of William O'Brien's Cork Free Press which suffered closure in 1916 soon after the appointment of Lord Decies as Chief Press Censor for Ireland. Cork (Corcaigh is the second largest city in the Republic of Ireland and the island of Ireland 's third most populous city after Dublin and Belfast William O'Brien (Irish Parliamentary Party should not be confused with his contemporary William X John Graham Hope de la Poer Beresford, PC ( December 5, 1866 &ndash January 31, 1944) 5th Baron Decies, was an Decies warned the press to be careful about what they published. Such warnings had little effect when dealing with such papers as the Cork Free Press. It was suppressed after Gallagher accused the British authorities of lying about the conditions and situation of republican prisioners in the Frongoch internment camp[1]. Frongoch internment camp at Frongoch in Merionethshire, Wales was a makeshift place of imprisonment during the First World War.
Gallagher worked alongside Erskine Childers on the Republican publicity staff and fought alongside Eamon de Valera during the Irish War of Independence. Robert Erskine Childers DSC (25 June 1870&ndash24 November 1922 was an author and Irish nationalist who was executed by the authorities of the nascent Éamon de Valera (ˈeɪmən dɛvəˈlɛrə (born Edward George de Valera) (14 October 1882 &ndash 29 August 1975 was one of the dominant political figures in 20th century The Irish War of Independence (or Tan War, or Anglo-Irish War, Irish: Cogadh na Saoirse) from January 1919 to July 1921 was a guerrilla He would write several short stories for de Valera under various pseudoynms. Gallagher served long stints in prison due to his IRA involvement and went on many hunger strikes. The Irish Republican Army ( IRA) (Óglaigh na hÉireann was a military organisation descended from the Irish Volunteers, established 25 November 1913 and who (the shortest lasting 3 days, the longest 41). [2] He founded the Irish Press in 1931 and was appointed deputy director of Radio Éireann in 1936. The Irish Press was an Irish Newspaper published by Irish Press plc between September 5 1931, on the eve of the 1931 Kilkenny v Cork RTÉ Radio 1 ( Irish: RTÉ Raidió 1) is the principal radio channel of Irish He would later serve as the director of the Government Information Bureau from 1939–48 and again through 1951-54. Gallagher has composed numerous short stories, biographies and historical pieces. [3]
References
- ^ Peter Martin Censorship in the two Irelands 1922-39, Introduction p. 9, Irish Academic Press (2008) ISBN 0-7165-2829-0
- ^ Garrity, Davin A. 44 Irish Short Stories. Seventeenth Edition. Devin-Adair. Co. 1988. Retrieved Oct. 08, 2007.
- ^ [1] Gallagher at Princess Grace Irish Library. Retrieved Oct. 08, 2007.
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