![]() Raised in the notorious Hell’s Kitchen district of the city, he was educated at Commerce High School and Haaren High School. The rest of the family emigrated to New York in the late 1920s. (Loosely translated from the Irish, Padraic Colum means Padraic the Dove while Padraic Fiacc means Padraic the Raven.)Īfter the family’s Lisburn home was burned in an anti-Catholic pogrom, his father emigrated to New York, leaving Joseph to be raised by his maternal grandparents. His poetry is remarkable in its range and depth, and will undoubtedly be read and studied for generations to come."įiacc was the subject of an exibition at the Linen Hall Library in Belfast last June, Faces of Fiacc, including works by Neil Shawcross, Bill Kirk, Frankie Quinn and Stevie Raelynn Johnson.īorn Patrick Joseph O’Connor in Belfast in 1924, Fiacc adopted his pseudonym in honour of his friend and mentor, poet Padraic Colum. ![]() Sheila Pratschke, chair of the Arts Council said, “Padraic Fiacc was a poet of international and national significance, his work capturing the complex and layered experience of the Irish diaspora. ![]()
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