John Healy (Irish journalist)
- John Healy (Irish journalist)
John Healy (1930-1991) was an Irish journalist who wrote for "Western People" and "The Irish Times".
Biography
John Healy was born in Charlestown, County Mayo, Ireland.
Career
Healy was a journalist with "The Irish Times" newspaper, writing the "Backbencher" column in the 1960's and 1970's.
Healy's book "No One Shouted Stop (The Death of an Irish Town)", published in 1968, chronicled the economic and social decline of rural life in the West of Ireland in a time of widespread poverty and mass emigration.
Death and afterward
John Healy died January 6, 1991. He was survived by his wife Evelyn.
In March 2007, a RTE radio journalist visited Charlestown and assessed the changes in Healy's hometown in the forty years since the writing of his book. [http://www.rte.ie/radio1/podcast/podcast_flux.xml]
Honors and places bearing his name include the Western Development Commission/John Healy Awards [ [http://www.wdc.ie/JohnHealyAwards.html John Healy Awards] ] , the N5 Charlestown bypass [cite news |first=Michael |last=Commins |title=John Healy Road; Charlestown community celebrates landmark day |url=http://www.mayonews.ie/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2716&Itemid=38 |work=Mayo News |date=2007-11-06 ] , and the John Healy Western People Awards [cite news |first=Sandra |last=Coffey |title=Wigan mayor launches the John Healy Festival |url=http://www.westernpeople.ie/news/story/?trs=eykfqlqlmh |work=Western People |date=2008-09-24 |quote=The newspaper has teamed up with the festival and is launching a story-writing competition next week. The John Healy Western People Awards competition is open to all secondary school students in Mayo. ] .
Published works
*"The Death of an Irish Town" (Mercier Press, 1968)
*"Nineteen Acres" (ISBN 0906312108, Kennys Bookshops, 1978)
References
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