John Gallen

Life
?-1947; ed. St. Columb’s, Derry; attempted with Robert Greacen to make The Northman at QUB into ‘a literary periodical for the whole of Ulster’; died young in climbing accident in India; ‘Hotel, Calcutta’, a war-sequence, appeared in The Northman (Summer 1947).

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Criticism
See Terence Brown, Northern Voices: Poets from Ulster (Dublin: Gill &Macmillan 1975), p.129.

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