The poet Roy McFadden died at his home in Belfast yesterday.
Born in 1921, Mr McFadden read law at Queen's University Belfast and worked as a solicitor until his retirement in the 1980s.
He published his first collection of poems, Swords and Plough-shares, in 1943 and followed it two years later with Flowers for a Lady. In 1948 he began co-editing the periodical Rann, which sought to encourage new Northern writing.
In the intervening years, he published six more volumes. Mr McFadden dealt fastidiously with issues of identity and cultural vision. Paul Durcan described him as ". . . a quiet voice, more audible than all the shriekers shrieking together".
Roy McFadden is survived by his wife, Margaret, and five children, Mairead, Stephen, Grania, Owen and Conor.