Life
1948 -; b. Northern Ireland; ed. Dalriada School, Ballymoney, and QUB
(MA and PhD); taught English in Greece and at Mohammed V University, Rabat,
Morocco; lecturer in English, UUC; publications include The Poetry
of Seamus Heaney (1988) and The Art of Brian Friel (1995);
edited a volume of critical essays on Seamus Heaney (1993) and others in
Contemporary Irish Poetry (1996); also contributions to books and
journals on American and Irish writers; Co-ordinator of MA Dip. in Anglo-Irish
Literature; senior examiner on GCSE Boards (Northern Ireland); director
of Ulster Poets Symposium Series (University of Ulster).
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Works
The Poetry of Seamus Heaney: All the Realms of Whisper (London: Macmillan
1988); Seamus Heaney: A Collection of Critical Essays (London:
Macmillan 1993), 273pp.; The Art of Brian Friel: Neither Reality nor
Dreams (Basingstoke: Macmillan 1995); ed., Contemporary Irish Poetry:
A Collection of Critical Essays (Basingstoke: Macmillan 1996).
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The Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)