title: Kevin Faller
text: # Kevin Faller
  
  Kevin Faller (1920–1983) was an Irish scriptwriter and poet.
  
  Faller was born in Galway City. His paternal grandparents were German refugees from the Black Forest in Baden-Wuerttemberg, and had opened a jewellery shop in 1879 on Williamsgate Street, in the city centre.
  
  He moved to Dublin in 1945, working with book publishers, on newspaper editorial staff and wrote radio scripts.
  
  ## Select bibliography
  
  * Genesis (a novel), London, TV Boardman, 1953
  * Lyrics, Dublin, Colm O’Lochlainn, 1963
  * Lament for Bull Island and Other Poems, Dublin, The Goldsmith Press, 1973
  * The Lilac Tree and Other Poems, Dublin, St Beuno's Press, 1979
  * Memoirs: Collected Poems, Mornington, County Meath, Tracks, 1984
  * Irish Poetry of Faith and Doubt:The Cold Heaven, ed. John F. Deane, Wolfhound Press, 1990.
  