Dawe, Gerald, 1952-

<p>PERSONAL INFORMATION: Born April 22, 1952, in Belfast, Northern Ireland; son of Gordon Aubrey (a civil servant) and Norma Fitzgerald (a homemaker; maiden name, Bradshaw) Dawe; married Dorothea Melvin (a company director), September 28, 1979; children: Iarla Jonathan (stepson), Olwen Chartres. Education: University of Ulster, B.A. (with honors), 1974; University College, Galway, M.A., 1978. Memberships: International Association for the Study of Irish Literature and Language. Addresses: Home: 21 Mulgrawe St, Dun Laognaire County, Dublin, Ireland. Office: Department of English, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.</p> <p>CAREER: Central Library, Belfast, Northern Ireland, library assistant in fine arts department, 1974; University College, Galway, Ireland, tutor and assistant lecturer in English, 1976--, lecturer in extramural studies, 1977--; Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, lecturer, 1988--; Trinity College, Dublin, director of Oscar Wilde Centre for Irish Writing, 1999. Founder and editor, Krino: The Review, 1986-96.</p> <p>AWARDS: Major State Award from Northern Ireland Department of Education, 1974-77; Arts Council of Ireland Award, 1980, for poetry; Macauley Award for Literature, 1984; Hawthorden Fellowship, 1988; Lewig-Rowhort Fellowship, 1999.</p>

poet. Born in Belfast, he was educated at NUU and UCG; he worked as a lecturer at TCD from 1988. Amongst his collections are Sheltering Places (1978), The Lundys Letter (1985), Sunday School (1991), Heart of Hearts (1995), and The Visible World (2000). How's the Poetry Going? (1991), A Real Life Elsewhere (1993), False Faces (1994), Against Piety (1995) and Stray Dogs and Dark Horses (1999) are collections of essays. He founded Krino in 1985.