Peter Fallon was born in Germany in 1951 and grew up on his uncle’s farm near Kells in County Meath. He graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, where, in 1994, he was Writer in Residence. At the age of eighteen he founded The Gallery Press which has published more than four hundred books of poems and plays by the country’s finest established and emerging authors and which is recognized as Ireland’s pre-eminent literary publishing house. The Gallery Press is based in Loughcrew, County Meath, where Peter Fallon lives.
The Georgics of Virgil, (a Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation), was published in September 2004. His dramatization of Tarry Flynn (from the novel by Patrick Kavanagh) received its first production “off Broadway” (in Pennsylvania, actually!) the same month. The Georgics was subsequently published by Oxford in its World’s Classics series.
A member of Aosdána, Peter Fallon received the 1993 O’Shaughnessy Poetry Award from the Irish American Cultural Institute. He has been Poet in Residence at Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts and, in the Spring of 2000 was the inaugural Heimbold Professor of Irish Studies at Villanova University. In 2012/2013 he was the Burns Library Visiting Scholar in Irish Studies at Boston College.
Peter Fallon: Poet, Publisher, Editor and Translator, a tribute book, appeared from Irish Academic Press in 2013.