WILLIAM TREVOR. Picture courtesy of The Irish Times.

The literary world has been devastated by the death of one of the greatest Irish writers, William Trevor, (May 24, 1928 – November 20, 2016, who was born in Mitchelstown, Co. Cork.

His father, James William Cox, originally from Roscommon, worked in the bank, and in the 1940’s, he served at the Abbey Square branch of the Bank of Ireland , Enniscorthy, where young  Trevor got a flavour of rural life in a small Wexford Town.

Trevor wrote radio plays, novels, short stories, and perhaps his best known work, because it was made into a popular film, was The Ballroom of Romance, with Bridie (played by Brenda Fricker) as the main character.

Amongst the tributes played were one from Wexford novelist John Banville, who wrote: “His death is a heavy loss to Irish letters and to world literature.”