Papers, 1971-

Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013

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Seamus Heaney, poet, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, was born in April 1939, the eldest of nine children. His father owned and worked a small farm in County Derry in Northern Ireland. At the age of twelve he won a scholarship to St. Columb's College, a Catholic boarding school situated in the city of Derry, From 1957 he lived in Belfast, moving in 1972 to the Irish Republic, where he now lives. His poems first came to public attention in the mid-1960s when he was active as one of a gro...

Colgan, Michael

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Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939

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W.B. (William Butler) Yeats (1865-1939), poet and dramatist, born in County Sligo, Ireland. From the description of W.B. Yeats collection, 1875-1965. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 173863171 British poet. From the description of Letter : to William Weber, Brooklyn, New York : holograph, 12 May [no year]. (University of California, San Diego). WorldCat record id: 18786005 William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) was an Irish poet and dramatist. From t...

Yeats, Anne, 1919-2001

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d. 2001. From the description of Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material. (Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)). WorldCat record id: 775674091 ...

Muldoon, Paul

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Paul Muldoon was born in County Armagh in 1951. He attended Queen's University in Belfast where he studied English literature under Seamus Heaney. In 1973, the year he graduated from Queen's, Faber and Faber published his first collection of poems. From 1973 to 1986 he worked as a radio and television producer for BBC Northern Ireland. He moved to the United States in 1987 and has held various university teaching posts. He currently lives in New Jersey and is the Howard G. B. Clark '21 Professor...

Ó'Floinn, Crístóir

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Conner, Lester I.

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Lester Conner is a scholar of Anglo-Irish literature and a retired college professor. He received his PhD. at Columbia University and has written on Yeats. His Yeats dictionary is to be published in 1998. Conner has taught at institutions of higher learning in the United States and Ireland, including Chestnut Hill College (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) and Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). He was also the Associate Director of the Yeats International Summer School at Sligo, Ireland. F...

Vendler, Helen Hennessy.ndence.

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Martin, Augustine.

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Vendler, Helen Hennessy

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Paulin, Tom

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Tom (Thomas Neilson) Paulin, the poet, critic, and playwright, was born in Leeds on 25 January 1949, brought up in Belfast, and educated at Hull University and Lincoln College, Oxford. He lectured in English at the University of Nottingham from 1972 until 1989, and was Reader in Poetry there from 1989 until 1994, when he moved to become G.M. Young Lecturer in English at Hertford College, Oxford. For fuller details of his life and achievements see Who's who . From the guide to the Lit...

Simmons, James, 1933-2001

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James Simmons was born in 1933 in Derry, Northern Ireland. He attended the University of Leeds as a mature student in the late 1950's where he met lifelong friends Tony Harrison and Wole Soyinka. Simmons went on to teach English at Ahamadu Bello University in Nigeria, Friends School, Lisburn, and the New University of Ulster, Coleraine, and in 1989 was named Writer in Residence at Queens University of Belfast. In 1968, Simmons founded and edited The Honest Ulsterman, a prominent literary magazin...

Mahon, Derek, 1941-....

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Derek Mahon (1941- ), poet, born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. From the description of Derek Mahon papers, circa 1948-2008. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122503847 Irish poet Derek Mahon met Louis Asekoff in the early 1960s while they were students at Trinity College in Dublin. Louis Asekoff (1939- ), poet and educator, currently coordinates the M.F.A. Program in Poetry at Brooklyn College. His poems have appeared in many magazines, including THE NEW YORKER, POETRY, TIKKUN,...

Kiberd, Declan

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McKenna, Siobhán, 1923-1986

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Maxwell, D. E. S. (Desmond Ernest Stewart), 1925-

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Kelly, John (John S.)

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Kennelly, Brendan

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Longley, Michael, 1939-....

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Michael Longley was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on July 27, 1939. He attended Malone Primary School and the Royal Belfast Academical Institution, before going on to Trinity College, Dublin, where he read Classics. After graduating with honors in 1963, he held a variety of teaching positions in Blackrock, Dublin, London, and Belfast. It was while teaching in Belfast that Longley first attended Philip Hobsbaum's informal gatherings of writers known simply as "the group." There he and other ...

Moore, Christy 1945-

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Friel, Brian

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Brain Friel, playwright. From the description of Dancing at Lughnasa : typescript. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122571424 Brian Friel was born Bernard Patrick Friel on January 9 or 10, 1929, in Omagh, County Tyrone, in northern Ireland. His family moved to Derry in 1939, where Friel attended the Long Tower School and, later, St. Columb's College. He then went to the National Seminary at St. Patrick's College in Maynooth before leaving in 1949 to attend a po...

Fallon, Peter, 1951-....

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Peter Fallon, poet, editor and publisher, was born in Germany in 1951 but spent his early years on a farm in County Meath, Ireland. He graduated in 1975 with a B.A. in English Language and Literature and an H. Dip. Ed from Trinity College. In 1970, at the age of eighteen, he founded The Gallery Press that has published poems and plays by the Ireland's finest established and emerging authors. The Gallery Press is recognised as the pre-eminent literary publishing house in Ireland. Among the writer...

Spring, Dick, 1950-

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Longley, Edna.

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