Life
1944- ; b. Coralstown, Co. Westmeath; ed. UCC, UCD, and Maynooth, taught
in Regional Technical College, Waterford, becoming Head of Humanities
there; Night on Hibernia (Dublin: Gallery Press 1976), winner of
1975 Patrick Kavanagh Prize; ed. Poetry Ireland in 1898; winner
of Listowel Open Poetry Competition, 1995; citation from Irish American
Cultural Institute, 1996; lectures at Waterford Regional College. DIL
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Works
Night on Hibernia (Dublin: Gallery Press 1976); Dolmen Hill
(Dublin: Gallery Press 1977), incl. “Orpheus”, a longer poem;
A Drink of Spring (Dublin: Gallery Press 1979]; The Burren Days
(Dublin: Dedalus 1985); Arboretum (Dublin: Dedalus Press 1990);
In a Green Shade (Dublin: Dedalus Press 1991); Down in the Deeper
Helicon (Dublin: Dedalus 1995), 223pp.; Telling the Bees (Dedalus
Press 1995) [three longer poems incl. “Letter to Connla” and
“This Other Umbria”]; Selected Poems (Dublin Dedalus
Press 1997) [var. 1996], 224pp.; Near St. Mullins (Dublin: Dedalus
Press 2002), 78pp.
Notes
Peter Fallon & Seán Golden, eds., Soft
Day, a miscellany of Contemporary Irish Writing (Notre Dame; Dublin:
Wolfhound 1980), selects “Corbetstown”; “The Croppy Boy”;
“Alice of Daphne, 1799”; also represented in John F. Deane,
ed., Dedalus Irish Poets: An Anthology (1992).
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