Life
1921-1995; b. Burnley, Lancashire, of working-class parents; ed Burnley
Grammar School and Manchester University; assistant principal, Board of
Trade, London; transferred to Ministry of Commerce, Belfast, 1948; permanent
secretary of Minister of Health; retired 1984; member of British Council
from 1985; member of board of British Advisory Committee; also chairman
of Bryson House; published poetry, A Prospect of the West (1970);
Corncrake in October (1978); Running Repairs (1983); Limbo
(1991), with epigraph from Cavafy (‘Always you must have Ithaca
in your mind./Arrival there is your predestined end.’); Collected
Poems (Lagan Press 1997).
Criticism
Philip
Hobsbaum, ‘The Belfast Group: A Recollection’, Éire-Ireland
32, 2&3 (Summer/Autumn 1997), pp.173-82.
Padraic Fiacc, ‘Goodbye to Norman Dugdale’, column in Fortnight Review (April 1997), p.40; notes Dugdale’s Collected
Poems issued by Lagan Press; Fortnight also prints ‘Louis
MacNeice’, ‘Remembrance of Things Past’; ‘How to become
an Alexandrian’; ‘Beginnings and Ends’; ‘Afternoon
in Early March: East Belfast’; ‘Theodotos’. (p.41); note
that Fiacc dedicated Red Earth (1997) to Dugdale.
Robert Greacen, reviewing Collected Poems, Books Ireland, May 1998, pp.126-27.
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