Jack Holland

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Jack Holland (born in 1946 – May 14, 2004) was an Irish journalist, novelist, and poet who established a reputation for his work "The Troubles" in his native Northern Ireland.

He has published articles, short stories, four novels, and seven works of non-fiction, mainly dealing with Northern Ireland's political and cultural life.

Misogyny: The World's Oldest Prejudice, his publisher's last book, was a departure from his previous fiction, and the final manuscript was published only after Holland's death, which was the result of a brief bout of cancer.

However, the book was later released posthumously by a different publisher.

Early life

Jack spent his first five years with his extended family in a home above Dougall's Yard, where his paternal grandfather, William Henry Holland, was wounded in the Battle of the Somme, was the stable keeper. Since his paternal grandmother, Mary Murphy Holland, was a Catholic, and his grandfather was a Protestant, he was raised in a "mixed" Catholic/Protestant household.

Michael McLaverty, a writer, and his English instructor Seamus Heaney attended St. Thomas' Secondary Intermediate School. Holland, the first in his family to graduate from university, studied at Magee College and Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. He received a master's degree in theoretical linguistics at Essex University in England.

Personal life

Holland married Mary Hudson, an American language tutor and translator, in 1974. Jenny Holland, their daughter, was born in Dublin in 1975. They lived in Brooklyn, New York, before heading to Trevignano Romano, outside Rome, Italy. They returned to Belfast for several years before settling in Brooklyn, where they stayed until Holland died in 2004.

Mary, his wife's grandmother, obtained a PhD in French in 1997. The Modern Language Association's first prize for translating a literary work was given to Louis-Ferdinand Céline's Fable for Another Time in 2004.

Holland spent the last years of his life in New York with his wife and writing on his final book. He died of cancer at the age of 56.

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Career

His journalistic career began at the Dublin weekly Hibernia (which he, ironically, had a hand in bringing down), a newspaper owned by John Mulcahy and edited by Brian Trench. He worked briefly In 1976 for the BBC Northern Ireland, where he was a researcher for the weekly news program Spotlight, working alongside Jeremy Paxman and other journalists.

In 1977, he moved to New York City with his American wife—Mary Hudson, a teacher and translator—and their daughter, Jenny Holland. He earned his living there as a freelance journalist, writing for many publications, most notably The Irish Echo, where his weekly column "A View North" had a devoted following. In the 1990s, he became a lecturer at the New York University School of Journalism, he worked for Channel 4 in London, and he co-scripted the documentary Daughters of the Troubles (produced by Marcia Rock). His knowledge of the Northern Irish political situation and his reporting of the terrorist conflict earned him the respect of the public and of influential policy-makers in Washington, London, and Dublin such as statesmen Ted Kennedy, Hillary Clinton. the President and Prime Minister of Ireland, and the Minister of State for Northern Ireland.

Throughout Holland's travels with his wife, he wrote four novels, non-fiction work, and two volumes of poetry. He also had several short stories published in the magazines Story, Glimmertrain, and Crosscurrents. Over the course of his career, his writings appeared in The New York Times, The Village Voice, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, and Newsday in the US; as well as in the British and Irish publications The Spectator, The Sunday Independent, The Irish News in Belfast, and The Irish Post in London.

He has written a book on the Irish National Liberation Army, INLA – Deadly Divisions, which he co-authored with the former Workers' Party and Official IRA associate Henry McDonald. The book was first published in 1994 and has since been re-printed.

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