Poet
Gregory O\'Donoghue
Gregory O\'Donoghue
(Ireland, 1951 - 2005)
© The Munster Literature Centre
Biography
Gregory O’Donoghue was born in Cork in 1951, son of the poet and playwright Robert O’Donoghue. He studied English literature in UCC under Sean Lucy and John Montague and was part of what Thomas Dillon Redshaw has described as “that remarkable generation” which also included Theo Dorgan, Maurice Riordan, Gerry Murphy, Thomas McCarthy and Séan Dunne. After completing an M.A. he studied for a doctorate at Queen’s College Ontario, Canada where he taught and was married for the first time.
In the early 1990s he returned to Cork where he started to write again after many years of silence. He published an interim collection The Permanent Way with the local Three Spires Press and subsequently became workshop leader at the Munster Literature Centre and poetry editor of the journal Southword. In 2005 he published A Visit to the Clockmaker, his translations of a selection of work by the Bulgarian poet Kristin Dimitrova. Seven months later he died unexpectedly and his final collection Ghost Dance (Dedalus) was published posthumously in 2006.
© Patrick Cotter
BibliographyPoetry
Kicking, The Gallery Press, Dublin 1975
The Permanent Way, Three Spires Press, Cork 1996
Making Tracks, Dedalus, Dublin 2001
Ghost Dance, Dedalus, Dublin 2006
Translations
A Visit to the Clockmaker by Kristin Dimotrova (in collaboration with Dimitrova) Southword Editions, Cork 2005
The Belling by Lazlo Lator (in collaboration with divers hands) Southword Editions, Cork 2005
Links
http://www.dedaluspress.com/poets/odonoghue.html
O’Donoghue’s page at his publisher Dedalus.
http://www.munsterlit.ie/Conwriters/gregory_o\'donoghue.htm
O’Donoghue’s page at the Munster Literature Centre
Poems
Poems of Gregory O\'Donoghue
Sponsors
Partners
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