Geoffrey Phibbs
Jeoffrey "Geoffrey" Basil Phibbs (1900–1956) was an English-born Irish poet; he took his mother's name and called himself Geoffrey Taylor, after about 1930. He was brought up in Sligo, and educated in England at Haileybury. In 1924 he married the artist Norah McGuinness, whom he divorced in 1930.
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Geoffrey Phibbs
- Born
- 1900 · Smallburgh.
- Died
- 1956 · Dublin.
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- United Kingdom · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
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- poet
- Languages
- English
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Born at Smallburgh in 1900, died in Dublin in 1956.
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- 1.Search Results for England & Wales Births 1837-2006.
- 2.Terence Brown, Ireland's Literature: Selected Essays (1988), p. 142.
- 3.Catalogue description Divorce Court File: 6857. Appellant: Norah Allison Phibbs. Respondent: Jeoffrey Basil.
- 4.Jean Moorcroft Wilson. Robert Graves: From Great War Poet to Good-Bye to All That. Bloomsbury. 352–364. 2018. 9781472929143.
- 5.Hogarth Press: Commercial
- 6.Brown, p. 143.
- 7.Richard Murphy. The Kick: A Life Among Writers. Granta Books. 170. 2003. 978-1-86207-570-2.
- 8.Brown, p. 145.
- 9.Malcolm Ballin, Regionalism and Realism in the Bell, p. 91, in Patricia A. Lynch, Joachim Fischer, Brian Coates, Back to the Present: Irish Writing and History Since 1798(2006).
- 10.Roy McFadden
- 11.John Betjeman Letters: Volume One: 1936 to 1951, p. 270.
- 12.Niall Carson. Rebel by vocation: Seán O'Faoláin and the generation of The Bell. Manchester University Press. 107. 1 February 2016. 978-1-78499-711-3.
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