Constantine Fitzgibbon

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Robert Louis Constantine Lee-Dillon Fitzgibbon (Massachusetts 8 June 1919 - Dublin 25 March 1983) was a notable historian and novelist.

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[edit] Birth, family and marriage

His father was Northern Irish, his mother American. Son of Commander Francis Lee-Dillon FitzGibbon, RN, and Georgette Folsom, Lenox, Mass, USA. Married 1967, Marjorie (née Steele); one daughter; (by a previous marriage to Marion (née Gutmann) one son, b 1961). He was half-brother of Louis Fitzgibbon, author of Katyn.

[edit] Education

Wellington College; Munich University; Sorbonne; Exeter College, Oxford.

[edit] Career

Settled in England before moving to Ireland. Historian, Journalist and Novelist expert. Served War of 1939-45, British Army (Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry), 1939-42; US Army, 1942-46. Constantine FitzGibbon said he was offered, but refused, a job with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) when it was created following World War II. Schoolmaster, Saltus Grammar School, Bermuda, 1946-47; then independent writer.

His play, The Devil at Work was produced by the Abbey in 1971.

Member Irish Academy of Letters. FRSL; Fellow, Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1966.

[edit] Publications

  • The Arabian Bird (1949)
  • The Iron Hoop (1950)
  • Dear Emily (1952)
  • Miss Finnigan's Fault (1953)
  • Norman Douglas (1953)
  • The Holiday (1953)
  • The Little Tour (1954)
  • The Shirt of Nessus (1955)
  • In Love and War (1956)
  • The Blitz (1957)
  • Paradise Lost and More (1959)
  • When the Kissing had to Stop (1960) new edn (posthumous), (1989)
  • Adultery Under Arms (1962)
  • Going to the River (1963)
  • Random Thoughts of a Fascist Hyena (1963)
  • The Life of Dylan Thomas (1965 ed.)
  • Selected Letters of Dylan Thomas (1966 ed.)
  • Through the Minefield (1967)
  • Denazification (1969)
  • High Heroic (a novel about the life of Michael Collins) (1969)
  • Out of the Lion's Paw (1969)
  • London's Burning (1970)
  • Red Hand: The Ulster Colony (1971)
  • The Devil at Work (1971) (play)
  • A Concise History of Germany (1972)
  • In the Bunker (1973)
  • The Life and Times of Eamon de Valera (1973)
  • The Golden Age (1976)
  • Secret Intelligence (1976)
  • Man in Aspic (1977)
  • Teddy in the Tree (1977)
  • Drink (1979)
  • The Rat Report (1980)
  • The Irish in Ireland (1982)
  • and trans from French, German and Italian. Translator of the Rudolf Höß "autobiography". Contributor to Encyclopedia Britannica, newspapers and periodicals in Britain, America and elsewhere

[edit] When the Kissing Had to Stop

This novel was filmed 1962, directed by Bill Hitchcock and starring Denholm Elliott, Peter Vaughan and Douglas Wilmer[1].

[edit] References

  1. ^ Error - - New York Times
  • Who's Who
  • Oxford Dictionary of National Biography