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Life
[Occas. pseud John Pepper]; b. Belfast; journalist with the Belfast Telegraph, in which he wrote a long-standing column on Ulster dialect; novels A Man and a Half (1956), My Coat is Travel Stained (1957), The Frightened One (1958). IF2
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Works
A Man and a Half (London: Barker 1956); My Coat is Travel Stained (London: Barker 1957); The Frightened One (London: Barker 1958). Also [as John Pepper,] What a Thing to Say: Ulster dialect Humour (Blackstaff 1977); See Me, See her, Collection of Dialect Humour (Blackstaff 1978); A Quare Peg, Humour based on Ulster dialect (Blackstaff 1979); Catch Yourself On! Humorous Ulster dialect Sayings (Blackstaff 1980), all ill. Rowel Friers; also John Pepper’s Illustrated Encyclopedia of Ulster Knowledge (Belfast: Appletree 1983); John Pepper’s Ulster Phrasebook. (Belfast: Appletree 1982).
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References
Desmond Clarke, Ireland in Fiction: A Guide to Irish Novels, Tales, Romances and Folklore [Pt. 2] (Cork: Royal Carbery 1985), lists novels A Man and a Half (London: Barker 1956) [thriller set in Belfast], My Coat is Travel Stained (London: Barker 1957) [thriller set in NY and Belfast], The Frightened One (London: Barker 1958) [Belfast setting for psychological murder tale].
Loreto Todd, The Language of Irish Literature (London: Macmillan 1989) notices him as John Pepper.
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