Robert Greacen
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Robert Greacen | |
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| Born | 24 October 1920 |
| Died | 13 April 2008 (aged 87) |
| Education | Methodist College Belfast, Trinity College Dublin |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Years active | 1941–2008 |
| Spouse | Patricia Hutchins |
Robert Greacen (1920–2008) was an Irish poet and member of Aosdána. Born in Derry, Ireland, on 24 October 1920, he was educated at Methodist College Belfast and Trinity College Dublin. He died on 13 April 2008 in Dublin, Ireland.
Greacen's literary career included poetry, reviewing, and editing.[1]
Publications
[edit]His published poetry collections include The Bird (1941), Northern Harvest (Belfast, Derrick MacCord, 1944), One Recent Evening (1944), The Undying Day (London, The Falcon Press, 1948), A Garland for Captain Fox (Dublin, The Gallery Press, 1975), I, Brother Stephen (Dublin, St. Beuno's, 1978), Young Mr Gibbon (1979), A Bright Mask, (Dublin, The Dedalus Press, 1985), Protestant Without a Horse (Belfast, The Lagan Press, 1997), Carnival at The River (Dublin; Dedalus;, 1990); Collected Poems (Lagan Press, 1995), Lunch at the Ivy (Lagan Press, 2002), and Selected & New Poems (ed. by Jack W. Weaver, Cliffs of Moher, Salmon Publishing, 2006).
Robert Greacen: Collected Poems 1944-1994 won the Irish Times Award for Literature in 1995.
His autobiography, Even Without Irene, was published by the Dolmen Press in 1969 and re-issued in 1995 by Lagan Press. An expanded autobiography, The Sash My Father Wore, was published in Edinburgh by Mainstream Publishing in 1997.
Personal life
[edit]He was married to the late Patricia Hutchins, author of Ezra Pound's Kensington and James Joyce's Dublin. They had one daughter, Arethusa Greacen, who resides in Ireland.
References
[edit]- ^ Boisseau, Maryvonne (2002). "Propos croisés : Robert Greacen and Fred Johnston". Études irlandaises. 27 (1): 5–23.
Further reading
[edit]- The Times: Robert Greacen Poet who at the request of T. S. Eliot compiled The Faber Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry
- Guardian Obituary [1]
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- 1920 births
- 2008 deaths
- Male poets from Northern Ireland
- Writers from Derry (city)
- Writers from Dublin (city)
- Aosdána members
- People educated at Methodist College Belfast
- 20th-century poets from Northern Ireland
- 20th-century autobiographers from Northern Ireland
- 20th-century male writers from Northern Ireland