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Line 1: {{short description\|Irish writer and literary editor, and lawyer}} '''Terence de Vere White''' ([[29 April]] [[1912]] – [[17 June]] [[1994]]) was an [[Ireland\|Irish]] [[writer]], [[lawyer]] and [[editing\|editor]].▼ {{Use dmy dates\|date=April 2022}} ▲'''Terence de Vere White''' ([[29 April]] [[1912]] – [[17 June]] [[1994]]) was an [[Ireland\|Irish]] [[~~writer~~lawyer]], [[~~lawyer~~writer]] and [[editing\|editor]]. ==Life== ~~Born in [[Dublin]], he was the literary editor of ''[[The Irish Times]]'' from 1961 to 1977. At the time of his death, [[Victoria Glendinning]] was his wife.~~ ===Career=== Born in [[Dublin]], de Vere White studied at [[Trinity College, Dublin]]. He later qualified as a solicitor and became a partner at a leading Dublin law firm. He gave up law when he became the literary editor of ''[[The Irish Times]]'', a post he held from 1961 to 1977. Writing in [[1968 in Ireland\|1968]], he harshly criticized both the [[Constitution of Ireland]] and the existing political system, "At the time of this writing, the Constitution of the [[Irish Republic\|Republic]] is under scrutiny, but it is unlikely that any proposed changes therein will radically alter the system established. A Constitution on [[Constitution of the United States\|the United States model]] might well suit [[Irish people\|the people]] better than the present one; but the Irish are too innately [[Social Conservatism\|Conservative]] ever to bring about such a change except by gradual and almost imperceptible degrees."<ref> Terence de Vere White (1968), ''New Nations and Peoples Library: Ireland'', [[Thames and Hudson]]. Page 83.</ref> He retired from the newspaper in 1977. He wrote twelve novels, five biographies, two volumes of short stories and five other books of general interest.<ref>{{cite book\|last=Boylan\|first= Henry \|year=1998\|title=A Dictionary of Irish Biography, 3rd Edition\|pages=106\|location=Dublin\|publisher= Gill and MacMillan\|isbn= 0-7171-2945-4}}</ref> ===Personal life=== de Vere White married Mary O'Farrell in 1941 and they had two sons and a daughter. He was also the father of [[Dervla Murphy]]'s daughter, born in 1968.<ref>{{cite book\|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c-GR_OSU1zAC&q=dervla+terence+de+vere+white&pg=PA829\|chapter=Murphy, Dervla (1931-)\|editor-last=Speake\|editor-first=Jennifer\|editor-link=Jennifer Speake\|date=2003\|title=Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia\|publisher=Taylor and Francis\|pages=829\|isbn=1-57958-424-1\|accessdate=2008-10-12}}</ref> At the time of his death, he was married to [[Victoria Glendinning]].<ref>Niall Stanage, "Confessions of a storyteller" - interview with Victoria Glendinning, ''The Sunday Business Post'', July 21, 2002 {{cite web \|url=http://archives.tcm.ie/businesspost/2002/07/21/story395763628.asp \|title=Confessions of a storyteller - interview with Victoria Glendinning: ThePost.ie \|accessdate=2007-05-18 \|url-status=dead \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929111915/http://archives.tcm.ie/businesspost/2002/07/21/story395763628.asp \|archivedate=2007-09-29 }}</ref> ==Selected works== ~~'''Novels'''~~ * [[Prenez Garde]] (1986)▼ * ''The Road of Excess'' (1945) - biography of [[Isaac Butt]] ~~'''Plays'''~~ * ''[[Kevin O'Higgins]]'' (1948) * After Sunset (1973)▼ * ''The Story of the [[Royal Dublin Society]]'' (1955) * The Real Charlotte (1975)▼ * ''A Fretful Midge'' (1957) - novel * ''An Affair With the Moon '' (1959) - novel ▲* ''[[Prenez Garde]]'' (~~1986~~1961) - novel * ''The Remainder Man'' (1963) - novel * ''Lucifer Falling'' (1966) - novel * ''Tara'' (1967) - novel * ''The Parents of Oscar Wilde: [[William Wilde\|Sir William]] and [[Jane Wilde\|Lady Wilde]]'' (1967) * ''[[Leinster]]'' (1968) * ''Ireland'' (1968) - "New Nations & Peoples" series * ''The Lambert Mile'' (1969) - novel * ''The Lambert Revels'' (1969) - novel * ''The March Hare'' (1970) - novel * ''The Minister for Justice'' (1971) - novel * ''Mr. Stephen'' (1971) - novel * ''The [[Anglo-Irish]]'' (1972) ▲* ''After Sunset'' (1973) - play * ''The Distance and the Dark'' (1973) - novel * ''The Radish Memoirs'' (1974) - novel ▲* ''The Real Charlotte'' (1975) - play * ''Chimes at Midnight and Other Stories'' (1977) - fiction * ''[[Thomas Moore\|Tom Moore]]: The Irish Poet'' (1977) * ''My Name is Norval'' (1979) - novel * ''Birds of Prey: Stories'' (1980) - fiction * ''Johnnie Cross'' (1983) - novel about [[George Eliot]] * ''Chat Show'' (1987) - novel ==Sources== {{reflist}} ~~{{Unreferenced\|date=February 2007}}~~ <!-- use "De" for sorting purposes --> {{DEFAULTSORT:De Vere White, Terence}}▼ {{Authority control}} ▲{{DEFAULTSORT:~~De Vere~~ White, Terence de Vere}} [[Category:1912 births]] [[Category:20th-century Irish lawyers]] [[Category:1994 deaths]] [[Category:~~Irish~~Constitution ~~writers~~of the United States]] [[Category:Irish editors]] [[Category:Lawyers from Dublin (city)]] [[Category:Writers from Dublin (city)]] {{Ireland-writer-stub}}