Remembering Our Friend Gordon Snell

Gordon and Alan
Gordon Snell with Fighting Words chair Alan Gilsenan

Remembering Our Friend Gordon Snell

We are deeply saddened by the loss of our longtime supporter and board member Gordon Snell. He was a treasured friend of all at Fighting Words. We honour Gordon's life as an amazing writer of wondrous stories for children, a broadcaster and a cornerstone of the Fighting Words family. 

His legacy will live on in the pages of his forty-plus books, his lyrics and his work for theatre, the BBC and RTÉ. Alongside his beloved late wife Maeve Binchy, Gordon helped shape Fighting Words from its earliest days, leaving an indelible mark on our community. Today we celebrate Gordon, a warm, generous and insightful man who believed passionately in the limitless potential of young imaginations, and whose words brought joy to so many. 

 

Gordon and Roddy
Roddy Doyle with Gordon Snell

Gordon is pictured above with our co-founder Roddy Doyle at the unveiling of the quote he chose to honour his late wife Maeve Binchy at the Fighting Words centre in Dublin.

We will miss you, Gordon.