Padraic Fiacc, Irish poet, Died at 94

Padraic Fiacc was born Patrick Joseph O'Connor on April 15, 1924, in Belfast and died on January 21, 2019, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

He was an Irish poet, and member of Aosdána, the exclusive Irish Arts Academy.

 

His parents were Bernard and Annie (née McGarry) O'Connor, Fiacc's father was a barman who left for the United States when Fiacc was very young.

He lived with his maternal grandparents who had recently moved to the Markets area of South Belfast after being burned out of their home in Lisburn in which all their furniture was burned by anti-Catholic rioters.

Padraic Fiacc family emigrated to the United States in the late 1920s and he raised in New York City.

Padraic Fiacc passed away at 94 years old.