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Marcus, David
David Marcus. Image source MunsterLit.ie David Marcus was born in Cork in 1924. With Terence Smith and SJ White, he edited Irish Writing from 1946-54. He also edited Poetry Ireland, from 1948-54. He...
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Madden, Aodhan
Aodhan Madden. image source libertiespress.ie Aodhan Madden was born in Dublin. His plays for the stage include The Midnight Door (Dublin, The Abbey Theatre, Peacock Stage, 1983); The Dosshouse Waltz...
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Lewis, C.S.
C.S. Lewis. Image source narnia.wikia.com Clive Staples Lewis was born in Belfast in 1898. His poetry includes Spirits in Bondage ([psued. Clive Hamilton,] 1919); Dymer (London, J. M. Dent/New York, E....
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Michael Kerr was born in Ballymoney, Co Antrim, in 1958 and grew up in Portstewart, Co Derry. His autobiography is Our Side of the House (London, Quartet Books, 2002). He lives in Stoneleigh, UK....
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Keenan, Brian
Brian Keenan. Image source culturenorthernireland.orgBrian Keenan was born in Belfast in 1950. He has published one novel, Turlough (London, Jonathan Cape, 2000). His other work includes the...
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Johnston, Denis
Denis Johnston. Image source John "J-Cat" Griffith findagrave.com Denis Johnston was born in Dublin in 1901. His plays include The Old Lady Says ‘No’ (Dublin, The Gate Theatre, 1929); The Moon in the...
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Greacen, Robert
Robert Greacen. Image source Aosdána Robert Greacen was born in Derry in 1920. His poetry includes The Bird (1941); Northern Harvest, (Belfast, Derrick MacCord, 1944); One Recent Evening (1944); The...
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Dunleavy, J.P.
J.P. Donleavy. Image source nndb.com J.P. Donleavy was born in New York City in 1926 and came to Ireland following World War II. He is the author of eleven novels including The Ginger Man (Paris,...
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Monk Gibbon was born in Dublin in 1896. He studied in Oxford from 1915 but the following year year joined the British Army and served in France. On leave in Dublin in Easter, 1916, he was involved in...
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MacGill, Patrick
Photo from The War Illustrated, 31 July 1915. Caption reads:Pte. PATRICK MACGILL, London Irish, famous as the Navvy Poet who wrote Songs of the Dead End. Wikimedia Commons Patrick MacGill was born into...
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