McGill, Patrick
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1890-1963) Irish-born poet, journalist and author, in Scotland and England from 1905, in the US from the late 1920s. His World War One reportage was harrowing but insufficiently full of hatred for the Hun to please the authorities; his Irish novels were subsequently spurned by the Irish for reasons of political correctness not now entirely clear. Of sf interest is Sid Puddiefoot (1926), a Lost Race tale set in Africa, where exiles from persecution in Ireland had founded a kingdom in 1785. [JC]
Patrick McGill
born Maas, County Donegal, Ireland: 1 January 1890
died Miami, Florida: 23 November 1963
works
- Sid Puddiefoot (London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1926) [hb/]
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