Books by John Andrew Oliver

John Andrew Oliver, public servant and writer,(October 25 1913-May 28 2006)
He contributed enormously to radical reforms in the province’s regional planning and local government structures during the turbulent decade after 1963.
Born in Belfast, student at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution (Inst) and at Queen’s University, Belfast, where he took a degree in modern languages. He pursued his academic career at universities in Bonn, Königsberg and Geneva during the 1930s, and in 1954 graduated again, from the Imperial Defence College.

He joined the Northern Ireland civil service as an assistant principal in October 1937, and was soon setting up the Northern Ireland social service council.

In 1983, aged 70, he gave up all his committee memberships to make room for younger people. But his natural curiosity continued to seek an outlet, which he found in writing and in exploring his family roots around Magilligan, on Ireland’s north coast. He wrote short stories and articles based on his genealogical studies, travels and observations of Ulster life