Deane, John F., 1943-

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John F. Deane was born in 1943 on Achill Island, County Mayo, Ireland. He was educated at Mungret College, a Jesuit boarding school in Limerick. Deane then studied English and French at University College Dublin. In 1979, he founded Poetry Ireland, a national poetry society, and Poetry Ireland Review. In 1985, Deane founded Dedalus Press, another poetry publishing company, this time with an eye towards Europe and the translation of European poets.

Deane has published many collections of poetry, including Winter in Meath (1984), Walking on Water (1994), and Dear Pilgrims (2018). He has won the O’Shaughnessy Award for Irish Poetry, the Marten Toonder Award for Literature, and the Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Prize. In 1996, Deane was elected Secretary-General of the European Academy of Poetry. He was visiting scholar at the Burns Library at Boston College in 2008, and in 2012, became Distinguished Visiting Professor at Suffolk University, Boston. Deane is also a member of Aosdána, the Irish association of artists founded in 1981.

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referencedIn Gerald Dawe Papers Boston College. John J. Burns Library
creatorOf John F. Deane papers Boston College. John J. Burns Library
referencedIn David Emery Gascoyne papers University of Tulsa.
referencedIn Wole Soyinka papers, 1966-1996. Harvard Theater Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University
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associatedWith Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989. person
associatedWith Berrigan, Daniel. person
associatedWith Bosquet, Alain, 1919-1998. person
associatedWith Daly, Padraig J. person
associatedWith Dawe, Gerald, 1952- person
associatedWith Dedalus Press corporateBody
founderOf Durcan, Paul, 1944- person
associatedWith Ennis, John, 1944- person
correspondedWith Gascoyne, David, 1916-2001. person
associatedWith Gibbon, Monk, 1896-1987. person
associatedWith Graecen, Robert, 1920- person
associatedWith Hamburger, Michael. person
associatedWith Heaney, Seamus. person
associatedWith Kell, Richard. person
associatedWith Kinsella, Thomas. person
associatedWith Larkin, Philip. person
associatedWith Levertov, Denise, 1923-1997. person
associatedWith Mahon, Derek, 1941- person
associatedWith Milne, Ewart, 1903- person
associatedWith Montague, John. person
associatedWith Ní Dhomhnaill, Nuala, 1952- person
associatedWith O'Driscoll, Dennis. person
founderOf Poetry Ireland (Group) corporateBody
correspondedWith Soyinka, Wole. person
associatedWith Spender, Stephen, 1909-1995. person
associatedWith Williams, C. K. (Charles Kenneth), 1936- person
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Boston MA US
Chestnut Hill MA US
Ireland 00 IE
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Editors, Ireland
Irish poetry
Literature, Modern
Poets, Irish
Publishing, Press, Printing
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Poets
Poets, Irish
Professor
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Birth 1943

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