Eric Cross
Eric Cross was born in 1905 in Newry, Co. Down, but he was raised and educated in England
where he became a chemical engineer and inventor.
His book The Tailor and Ansty (with an introduction by Frank O'Connor,
London, Chapman & Hall 1942, 1964/Cork, Mercier, 1970),
was banned for a number of years and was the subject of a Seanad Éireann (Irish Senate) debate. He also published Silence is Golden and Other Stories (Dublin, Poolebeg, 1978).
He died near Westport, County Mayo, in 1980.