Peter Fallon (poet)

Born in West Germany to Irish parents in 1951, at the age of 6, and largely grew up on a farm at Lennoxbrook, near Kells, County Meath. He has one brother, and had one sister. At the age of 9 he was sent to St Gerard's School in Bray, for three years, which is where he first tried writing poetry. ==Dublin: Poetry, publishing and college==

Fallon left school at 16, and took a pre-university course in Science, with thoughts of becoming a veterinary surgeon. John Lennon and David Bowie. Members of Tara Telephone went on to become co-founders of influential Celtic rock group, Horslips. Fallon himself was an active member of the Dublin Poets' Union. Fallon has been the editor and publisher of Gallery Press from the beginning, first from suburban Dublin, and latterly of Loughcrew near Oldcastle, County Meath. The press, founded in 1970 Fallon co-founded the Deerfield Press and has also been the fiction editor at O'Brien Press, and co-edited an anthology of children's stories, "The Lucky Bag". ==Meath==

Fallon started to stay in a cottage in the garden area of the Loughcrew estate in northern County Meath in 1975, and bought it and some acres of land in 1984, later living there with his wife and children. ==Academic postings==

He was an adjunct professor at Trinity College Dublin, the Heimbold Professor at Villanova University, and the Burns Professor at Boston College. and "international writer-in-residence" for Indiana Schools in 1976. ==Reception and recognition==

His work as an editor has been described as making him "an arbiter of taste as well as a lead archaeologist of the layered communities in Irish poetry" while his translation of the Georgics by Virgil has been described as a "work of genius, a work that places Fallon in a great Trinity College classical studies tradition". The volume includes 17 poems written in his honour, including work by Seamus Heaney. His article was featured on the main page of the English-language Wikipedia in July 2023. ==Works==

Own poetry • Among the Walls (1971) • Loughcrew : The Cairns : A Guide To An Ancient Irish Landscape (Jean McMann, After Hours Books, 1994) In addition, he has edited and published more than 500 volumes of poetry and plays. ==References==