Eric Cross

Who was Eric Cross?

Eric Cross was an Irish writer.

Born in Newry, County Down, he published The Tailor and Ansty, in The Bell in 1942. This was a collection of stories and sayings from an old country tailor called Timothy Buckley and his wife Anastasia that Cross had recorded, with a foreword by Frank O'Connor. The book was banned by Censorship Board a short time after, during the government of Éamon de Valera. Some neighbours were furious and Buckley was forced by three priests to go on his knees and burn the book in his own fireplace.

Silence is Golden, a selection of stories and essays by Eric Cross, appeared in 1978. He died in 1980.