Benedict Kiely

Benedict Kiely ( born August 15, 1919 in Dromore, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, † February 9, 2007 in Dublin) was an Irish writer and journalist.

Life

Already as a teenager wanted Kiely, who grew up as the son of Thomas Kiely British soldiers in Northern Ireland, to be a writer. His great idols were George Bernard Shaw, HG Wells and Jonathan Swift. After leaving school at the Mount St. Columba Christian Brothers School in Omagh, he worked at the post office. Since it did not fill this work, he finally decided to become a priest. But these plans he gave up quickly and began to study English and history in 1938 from the University of Dublin. In addition, he has worked as a journalist.

After his graduation in 1941 he began a career as a journalist and broadcaster in Ireland. In 1945 his first short story Counties of Contention. More than a dozen novels such as land Without Stars (1946 ), The cards of the gambler (1953), The Captain with the Whiskers (1960), Dogs Enjoy the Morning ( 1968) and Nothing Happens followed in Carmi Cross ( 1985). Known to a wide audience but he was through his short stories, which he published in a series of collections. A recurring subject of his works was his home Northern Ireland.

Kiely was married to Maureen O'Connell since 1944; from the marriage were born three daughters and one son.