Herbert Moore Pim

Herbert Moore Pim was a writer, activist and bohemian who changed both political and religious allegiances multiple times during his lifetime.[2]

Herbert Moore Pim
Born(1883-06-06)June 6, 1883[1]
Belfast
DiedMay 12, 1950(1950-05-12) (aged 66)[1]
Sussex, England
Occupation
  • writer
  • poet
  • political activist
Spouses
  • Amy Vincent Mollan
  • Germaine Eleanor Dussotour

Biography

Born to a Quaker family he converted to Roman Catholicism in 1910.[3] He was arrested for his role in the Easter Rising and for a short period after his release was claimed to be the leader of the Sinn Féin party.[4] In June 1918 he resigned Sinn Féin and turned to right-wing unionism.[5]

In the 1920s Pim left for France, later obtaining French citizenship and marrying Germaine Eleanor Dussotour.[6] He wrote the book French love in 1927, it was a fictionalised and embellishment of his life story and was banned in Ireland.[7] The 1930s saw his involvement with fascism in Italy.[8] He went to England in 1937 to be close to his friend Lord Alfred Douglas in Sussex, England.[6]

He died in Sussex in 1950 aged 67.[9][lower-alpha 1]

Bibliography

A selection of his biography follows, some titles were written under the pen name A. Newman following his conversion to Catholicism:[2]

  • The Vampire of Souls. 1901.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • The Man with Thirty Lives. 1903.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Newman, A. (1914). The Pessimist.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • —— (1917). Unknown Immortals.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • —— (1917). Selected Poems.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • A Short History of Celtic Philosophy. Dundalk, Edinburgh & London: W. Tempest Dundalgan Press and T. N. Foulis. 1920. OCLC 1084943092. OL 7899714W.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • French Love. 1927.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

Notes
  1. Dates of birth and death would indicate age 66 so there is a discrepenc herey

References
  1. "Pi - New General Catalog of Old Books & Authors". www.authorandbookinfo.com. Archived from the original on 7 May 2019. Retrieved 12 October 2019.
  2. Brennan (2012).
  3. Brennan (2012), Intro..
  4. Brennan (2012), Separatist.
  5. Brennan (2012), Unionist.
  6. Brennan (2012), Anti-Semite.
  7. "From the files of the DIB...The man with thirty lives?". 20 February 2013. Archived from the original on 24 December 2017. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
  8. "The Dictionary of Ulster Biography". www.newulsterbiography.co.uk. Archived from the original on 31 May 2019. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
  9. Brennan (2012), Memory.

Sources and further reading
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