Background
Patrick Henry Pearse Mullan was born on April 22, 1946, in Portstewart, Ireland.
https://www.amazon.com/Illustrated-History-Boxing-Harry-Mullan/dp/0600552136/?tag=2022091-20
1987
https://www.amazon.com/Great-Book-Boxing-Harry-Mullan/dp/0517629534/?tag=2022091-20
1987
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1996
https://www.amazon.com/Ring-Wars-Pictorial-History-Boxing/dp/0752522272/?tag=2022091-20
1997
https://www.amazon.com/Boxing-Inside-Game-Harry-Mullan/dp/1840460296/?tag=2022091-20
1998
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2003
Patrick Henry Pearse Mullan was born on April 22, 1946, in Portstewart, Ireland.
Mullan attended St. Patrick’s College in Arwagh, Ireland.
Mullan's love affair with the sport began, aged five when he heard the radio commentary of Randolph Turpin's victory over Sugar Ray Robinson. Two years later, he persuaded his father to give him half a crown, the price of admission to watch Billy "Spider" Kelly boxing in Portstewart, Northern Ireland, the town where Harry grew up.
There was no turning back after that. Aged 11, he read Boxing News for the first time: tales of epic fights, interviews with his heroes, and dark rumors of skullduggery; pictures and words to fuel a fledgling passion. He was hooked. His desire was to edit the magazine. He began to write freelance pieces. In the 1970s he was given his dream job on the Boxing News staff and often remembered that he could never quite come to grips with the fact that he was being paid for something that he would have gladly paid to do. By 1977, he had realized his ambition - he became an editor at Boxing News, and his leadership was committed.
Harry wrote a string of solid books, including the weighty Illustrated History of Boxing in 1987 and a self-published paperback Fighting Words, an anthology of his most accomplished newspaper work. He had the perception and depth to make even the potentially dry coffee table type of book a thought-provoking read. His Ultimate Encyclopedia of Boxing is short to be reprinted.
Harry Mullan is known as one of the finest and most perceptive sports writers to have graced journalism in the last 30 years. He was a fine boxing writer, whose work was blessed with an essential dignity and spirit. Boxing people will remember him as a forthright, often controversial editor of trade paper Boxing News.
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1996Quotations: "What I hope comes across, above anything else, is the sheer exhilaration that I never lost at the realisation that I am actually making a living out of what I would do for nothing: writing about boxing."
Harry could be provocative, occasionally intransigent, but was always fiercely proud of his integrity. He loved boxing and worked to understand it, finding authority in his writing as a result of the depth of his knowledge. Boxing was the subject that drew him in, captivated him, and long afforded him clarity of purpose. Entertaining, controversial, cantankerous, and compassionate, he was a fighter's writer.
Harry was not afraid to stand his ground under pressure and consequently had a frosty relationship with several leading figures in the business. However, while some reacted in a combination of frustration and indignant outrage when he stuck to what he felt were proper points of view, most took the line that while they didn't agree with him, they respected his ability and authority.
Mullan was married to Jessie Mullan. They had a daughter and two sons.
