{{short description|Irish writer (1865–1935)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2020}} {{EngvarB|date=March 2020}} thumb|Bullock in 1895
'''Shan Fadh Bullock''' (b. John William, 17 May 1865 – 27 February 1935) was an Irish writer. He was born at Inisherk in Fermanagh and died in Surrey.<ref>Patrick Maume. "Bullock, Shan Fadh (John William)". Dictionary of Irish Biography. (Eds.)James Mcguire, James Quinn. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2009.</ref> He attended Farra School in County Westmeath, he failed the Trinity College Dublin entrance exams and moved to London. He served on the secretariat of the Irish Home Rule Convention.<ref>[http://www.ricorso.net/rx/az-data/authors/b/Bullock_SF/life.htm Shan F. Bullock - A Life]</ref> He was awarded the Order of the British Empire.
Bullock's works include 14 novels, mostly set in Ulster and examples of rural naturalism, but ''Robert Thorne: The Story of a London Clerk'' (1907), like two other novels, was a sortie into Edwardian urban realism. In his rural novels, Bullock, himself born a Protestant (Church of Ireland), portrayed Protestants almost exclusively in the Erne country of County Fermanagh. But he grew up in a religiously mixed district and in ''Dan the Dollar'' (1906) he explores what he sees as the opposing psychologies of planter Scots and native Irish. By consensus his best novel is ''The Loughsiders'' (1924). His non-fiction work includes a biography of the co-designer of RMS ''Titanic'', ''Thomas Andrews, Shipbuilder'' (1912). His fiction has been discussed by John Boyd, Benedict Kiely and John Wilson Foster. <ref> John Boyd, "Ulster Prose" in ''The Arts in Ulster'', eds. Sam Hanna Bell, Nesca A. Robb, John Hewitt (London: Harrap, 1951); Benedict Kiely, "Orange Lily in a Green Garden", ''The Irish Times'', 29 Dec. 1972; John Wilson Foster, ''Forces and Themes in Ulster Fiction'' (Rowman and Littlefield, 1974), pp. 29-36; ''Irish Novels 1890-1940: New Bearings in Culture and Fiction'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), pp. 147-148, 155, 169-70. </ref> He was admired by J. M. Barrie and Thomas Hardy.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Mr. Shan F. Bullock, Irish Novelist and Poet [Obituary]|journal=The Times|date=1935-02-28|pages=17}}</ref>
Bullock played for the Authors Cricket Club.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/302/302794.html |title=Authors v Publishers |author=<!--Not stated--> |website=Cricket Archive |access-date=18 April 2019 }} 21 August 1912 match.</ref><ref>{{cite book | author-last= Wodehouse | author-first= P. G. | title= Wodehouse at the Wicket | publisher= Arrow Books | date=2011 | isbn=978-0099551362 | page=19 | editor-last=Hedgcock | editor-first=Murray | editor-link=Murray Hedgcock}}</ref>
== Works == *The awkward squads and other stories (London : Cassell, 1893.) *[https://archive.org/details/bythrasnarivers00bullgoog By Thrasna River (London : Ward, Lock & Bowden, 1895.)] *[https://archive.org/details/ringorushes00bullgoog Ring o' rushes (London; New York : Ward, Lock, 1896.)] *The charmer : a seaside comedy (London : J. Bowden, 1897.) *[https://archive.org/details/barrys00bullgoog The Barrys (London; New York : Harper & Brothers, 1899.)] *[https://archive.org/details/irishpastorals00bullgoog Irish Pastorals (London : Grant Richards, 1901.)] *[https://archive.org/details/squireen00unkngoog The Squireen (London : Methuen, 1903)]<ref>{{cite journal|title=Review of ''The Squireen'' by Shan F. Bullock|journal=The Athenaeum|issue=3942|date=May 16, 1903|pages=620|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oKA5AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA620}}</ref> *[https://archive.org/details/robertthornesto00bullgoog Robert Thorne (London : T. Werner Laurie 1907?)] *Master John (London : Laurie, 1909?) *[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32166 Thomas Andrews, shipbuilder (Dublin; and London : Maunsel and company, ltd, 1912.)] *Mors et vita (London : T. Werner Laurie, 1923) *The Loughsiders (London : G.G. Harrap & co. ltd., 1924.) *Gleanings (Sutton, Surrey : William Pile, 1926?) *After sixty years (London : Sampson Low, Marston, 1931?)
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links == * {{Gutenberg author | id=35704}} * {{Internet Archive author |sname=Shan Fadh Bullock}} * [http://www.qub.ac.uk/directorates/InformationServices/TheLibrary/FileStore/Filetoupload,71193,en.pdf Shan Bullock Manuscript Collection at Queen's University Belfast] * {{Librivox author |id=14812}} {{Authority control}}
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