Hugh McVeigh

Life
1907- ; b. Derry, Ed. Middlesex; became principal of Cullyhanna Sch., Armagh; author of children’s stories for BBC; Grass Bank Beyond (London: Gifford 1947), a love story in Co. Tyrone; portraits of priests, the local amiable and the Derry priest otherwise; Oft in the Stilly Night (1957), set in Derry; family life; frustrated love-affairs; departure to Belfast and Cork. IF2

Works
Grass Bank Beyond ([London:] John Gifford 1946), 105pp.; Oft in the Stilly Night (London: Robert Hale [1957]), 192pp. [d. by Biro].

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