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Name
  
Eric Cross


Role
  
Writer

Eric Cross (writer)

Died
  
1980, County Mayo, Republic of Ireland

Books
  
The Tailor and Ansty, Silence is Golden, and Other Stories

Eric Cross (1905 – 1980) was an Irish writer.

Born in Newry, County Down, he published The Tailor and Ansty, in The Bell in 1942. This was a collection of stories and sayings from an old country tailor called Timothy Buckley and his wife Anastasia that Cross had recorded, with a foreword by Frank O'Connor. The book was banned by Censorship Board a short time after, during the government of Éamon de Valera. Some neighbours were furious and Buckley was forced by three priests to go on his knees and burn the book in his own fireplace.

Cross was one of the contributors of spoken essays to the RTÉ Radio series Sunday Miscellany. Silence is Golden, a selection of stories and essays by Eric Cross, appeared in 1978. He died in 1980.

References

Eric Cross (writer) Wikipedia


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