[Capt.] John M. Feehan (1916-91)

Life
?-1991; b. 8 Sept. 1916; Dullia, Co. Tipperary; held rank of Captain in Irish Army at date of retirement in 1945 and used it afterwards; fnd. Mercier Press at 4 Bridge St., Cork, 1946; successfully published This Tremendous Lover by the Trappist monk Dom Eugene Boylan, 1946; acquired translation rights on German works of philosophy and religion at Frankfort Book Fair; published numerous titles in Irish literature, culture, history and religion - including plays of John B. Keane; suffered the death of his wife Mary from cancer, with whom four children, and wrote Tomorrow Be Brave (1972); also published My Village, My World (1992), with a foreword by John B. Keane; d. suddenly of heart attack, 25 May 1991.

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Works
Criticism
  • Fifty Years Young: A Tribute to John B. Keane (Cork: Mercier Press, c1979), 101pp.
Comedy & compilations
  • with Edward J. Delaney, The Comic History of Ireland, ill. by Jerome Sullivan, 2 vols. (1951); another edn. as The Comic History of Ireland: containing 9 invasions (assorted), several rebellions (mixed), many good battles (fierce), 11 feasts (with treachery) and several other sporting events, ill. by Jerome Sullivan [Irish Pocket Books] (Cork: Mercier Press 1964, 1976), 105pp.
  • The Irish Bedside Book (Cork: Mercier Press 1980), 128pp.
Politics & Current Affairs
  • The Shooting of Michael Collins: Murder or Accident (Cork [Royal Carbery]: Mercier Press; 3rd edn. 1982; 5th edn. 1988; another edn. 1991), 138pp., ill. [map].
  • Bobby Sands and the Tragedy of Northern Ireland Mercier Press 1983), pp.152.
  • Operation Brogue : A Study of the Vilification of Charles Haughey - code-named "Operation Brogue" by the British Secret Service (Cork: Mercier Press, 1984), 138pp.
  • The Statesman: A Study of the Role of Charles J Haughey in the Ireland of Tomorrow (Cork: Mercier Press 1985), 110pp.
  • An Apology to the Irish People (Royal Carbery Books [distrib. Mercier Press] 1988), 106pp.
Autobiography
  • Tomorrow To Be Brave (Cork: Mercier Press 1972), 124pp.
  • My Village - My World, foreword by John B. Keane. (Cork Mercier Press 1992), 96pp.
Topographical
  • The Wind that Round the Fastnet Sweeps (Cork: Mercier Press, 1978), 110pp.
  • The Magic of the Kerry Coast (Cork: Mercier Press 1979), 122pp.
  • The Magic of the Shannon (Cork: Mercier Press 1980), 122pp.
  • The Secret Places of the Burren (Cork: Royal Carbery Books 1987), 130pp.
  • The Secret Places of the Shannon (Royal Carbery Books 1989), 122pp.
  • The Secret Places of Donegal (Cork: Mercier 1988), 144pp.
  • The Secret Places of the West Cork Coast (Cork: Mercier Press 2016), 122pp.

Note: Title details from COPAC - search <John M. Feehan>. Still-published titles of the Mercier Press are available at the publisher’s website - “Celebrating 75 Years”. There is a Feehan page in Wikipedia - online. [All accessed 09.0.2023.]

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