Jack Mitchell
Glaswegian Jack Mitchell, an authority on Sean O'Casey and former lecturer at Humboldt University, Berlin, died recently in Galway, where he and his wife Renate had retired some years ago.
His daughter Jennie is married to Niall Farrell, whose sister Mairéad was one of the 'Gibralter Three' who were killed by the SAS. Jack, who was a fine poet, wrote a lengthy poem about that event.
A fortnight before his death he sent the poem reproduced on the right (Marching Season) to the Irish Democrat, saying in the accompanying letter: 'It is quite seasonal, I would say - the season of War and Bad Will to All Men (and Women)'.
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