Jack Holland

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Edward John "Jack" Holland (born June 4, 1947 in Belfast , Northern Ireland , † May 14, 2004 in Brooklyn , New York City ) was an Irish author and journalist. From 1977 he lived as a freelance writer with his family in New York, where he was recognized for his "knowledgeable comments" on Northern Ireland policy. His last book Misogyny was his most important project.

Life

Jack Holland was born in Belfast in 1947 and grew up with several siblings in a mixed Catholic - Protestant family. His father was an amateur boxer and his mother taught ballroom dancing. After moving from a Catholic to a Protestant area, he experienced the religious hostilities of his classmates. He was the first member of his family to complete an academic education. He studied English literature at Trinity College Dublin and began studying linguistics in England . It was there that he met his future wife, the American linguist Mary Hudson .

At the BBC in Belfast, Holland organized "groundbreaking contemporary history programs" together with the well-known journalist Jeremy Paxman . Since 1977 he lived with his family in Brooklyn , New York City , USA . He has published novels, short stories and poetry as well as non-fiction books, particularly on the Northern Ireland conflict .

His last work Misogyny was his "most important project". His daughter Jenny Holland wrote a biography about her father, who died of cancer at the age of 56. She wrote the foreword to his last book.

Works

  • Too Long a Sacrifice , Dodd Mead & Company, 1981
  • The Prisoner's Wife , Dodd Mead & Company, 1981, Robert Hale, London, 1982, Poolbeg Press, Dublin 1995
  • Druid Time , Dodd Mead & Company, 1986
  • The American Connection , Viking Penguin, New York, 1987, Roberts Rinehart Publishers, 1987
  • The Fire Queen , The Penguin Group, New York, 1992
  • Walking Corpses , Torc, (division of Poolbeg Press,) Dublin, 1994
  • INLA: Deadly Divisions , (with Henry McDonald ) Poolbeg Press, Dublin, 1994
  • Phoenix: Policing the Shadows , (with Susan Phoenix) Hodder & Stoughton, 1996 ( ISBN 978-0-3406-6634-0 ) & 2004, about the Chinook helicopter accident in Scotland in June 1994 in which a top anti-terrorist was killed has been
  • Hope Against History , Henry Holt & Company, New York, 1999
  • Misogyny , the World's Oldest Prejudice , Constable & Robinson (UK) / Carroll & Graf (US), 2006.

To the book Misogyny

Jack Holland's last book, Misogyny. The World's Oldest Prejudice , the manuscript of which was finished shortly before his death, was published posthumously in 2006, the German version appeared in 2007. The epilogue in About the Author contains data on his biography. According to this appendix, About the Author , exploring the historical roots of misogyny was Jack Holland's most important project. Another, longer afterword in the same book, pages 357–364, comes from Marlene Streeruwitz . The Austrian author writes about Holland's encounters with misogyny and the suppression of knowledge about it: “It is hard work to master the history of contempt for women and to endure the knowledge of it.” She emphasizes that Jack Holland as a man does this “hard work” managed without succumbing to the centuries-old mechanism of “displacement”: “(He) simply researched and wrote down the research. (...) A man tells this story in partiality with the women. And. This partiality of the husband and father Jack Holland enables a different reading. No turning away is necessary. The author adds all aids to be able to endure the facts described without being plunged into that boundless despair from which only renewed repression helps. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Echo’s Jack Holland dead at 56. In: irishecho.com . May 19, 2004, accessed December 15, 2018 (English, obituary).
  2. ↑ About the author at the end of the German edition Misogynie (Verlag Zweausendeins, Frankfurt a. M. 2007).
  3. ↑ Holland, Jenny: Biography of Jack Holland . JackHolland.net.
  4. ^ Jenny Holland in: Jack Holland: Misogynie , German edition 2007, pp. 9-14.
  5. ↑ Holland, Jenny: Biography of Jack Holland . JackHolland.net.
  6. ^ Misogyny, pp. 361-362.
personal data
SURNAME Holland, Jack
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Holland, Edward John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish author and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH June 4, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Belfast , Northern Ireland
DATE OF DEATH May 14, 2004
Place of death Brooklyn , New York City