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John Galway
John Galway was born in Athlone on the river Shannon in 1944. After graduating from university, he worked in many European countries, returning to Ireland in 1980 with a young fami...view moreJohn Galway was born in Athlone on the river Shannon in 1944. After graduating from university, he worked in many European countries, returning to Ireland in 1980 with a young family. He began submitting articles, illustrated by his wife, to the Irish Times, Ireland’s premier newspaper. Although these were very successful, the financial return was hardly enough to sustain a family, so he and his wife decided to convert the eighteenth-century Georgian house they had bought in County Galway into a residential centre for the teaching of English as a foreign language to business and professional people from Europe.
Of course, being in the heart of fox-hunting country, equestrian activities were part of every client’s ‘package,’ as were trips along the river Shannon to the many places of historic interest, including Clonmacnoise, that great seat of learning in early Christian times.
These activities provided much of the material for the illustrated articles that he and his wife continued to produce.
This is his first novel. He was inspired to write it as a result of research he did for an Irish national radio (RTE) programme in 1984 with the putative leader of the Estonian Resistance during World War II.
Apart from the Irish Times articles, he has read his own short stories on RTE Radio 1. In addition, he has contributed to a variety of magazines over the years, most recently to the online magazine In-Between.view less