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Maurice Scully
Maurice Scully (1952 – 5 March 2023) was an Irish poet who worked in the modernist tradition. Scully was born in Dublin and educated at Trinity College. He was a member of Aosdana. Life After some years living in Italy, Africa and the west of Ireland, he settled with his wife and four children in Dublin. Scully died in Bolea, Spain on 5 March 2023. The Beau ''The Beau'' was an annual literary journal edited by Scully. It ran to three issues: 1981, 1982/83 and 1983/84. Although the journal was short-lived, its contributor list, featuring writers from Ireland, Britain and the United States, was impressive and it played an important role in the emergence of a number of experimental Irish poets. It also carried reproductions by a number of Irish artists. Contributors included Roy Fisher, Knute Skinner, William Oxley, Randolph Healy, Brian Coffey, David Wright, Paul Durcan, John Freeman, John Jordan, Anthony Cronin, Gavin Ewart, Eoghan Ó Tuairisc, George Barker, De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brackets
A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. Typically deployed in symmetric pairs, an individual bracket may be identified as a 'left' or 'right' bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", respectively, depending on the Writing system#Directionality, directionality of the context. Specific forms of the mark include parentheses (also called "rounded brackets"), square brackets, curly brackets (also called 'braces'), and angle brackets (also called 'chevrons'), as well as various less common pairs of symbols. As well as signifying the overall class of punctuation, the word "bracket" is commonly used to refer to a specific form of bracket, which varies from region to region. In most English-speaking countries, an unqualified word "bracket" refers to the parenthesis (round bracket); in the United States, the square bracket. Glossary of mathematical sym ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Freeman (British Poet)
John Freeman may refer to: Politicians *John Freeman (Australian politician) (1894–1970), Australian politician * John Freeman (British politician) (1915–2014), British politician, broadcaster and television presenter *John Freeman (Wyoming politician) (born 1954), member of the Wyoming House of Representatives *John Bailey Freeman (1835–1890), Canadian politician *John D. Freeman (1817–1886), U.S. Representative from Mississippi Sportspeople *John Freeman (cricketer) (1883–1958), English cricketer * John Freeman (baseball) (1901–1958), American baseball player *John Freeman (footballer) (born 2001), English footballer *John Freeman (rugby) (1934–2017), Welsh rugby union and professional rugby league footballer *John Childe-Freeman (born 1935), known as John Freeman, cricketer for Queensland * John Ripley Freeman (1855–1932), American civil engineer * Buck Freeman (John Frank Freeman, 1871–1949), American baseball player Writers and editors *John Freeman (poet) (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish Poets
Irish may refer to: Common meanings * Someone or something of, from, or related to: ** Ireland, an island situated off the north-western coast of continental Europe ***Éire, Irish language name for the isle ** Northern Ireland, a constituent unit of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ** Republic of Ireland, a sovereign state * Irish language, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family spoken in Ireland * Irish people, people of Irish ethnicity, people born in Ireland and people who hold Irish citizenship Places * Irish Creek (Kansas), a stream in Kansas * Irish Creek (South Dakota), a stream in South Dakota * Irish Lake, Watonwan County, Minnesota * Irish Sea, the body of water which separates the islands of Ireland and Great Britain People * Irish (surname), a list of people * William Irish, pseudonym of American writer Cornell Woolrich (1903–1968) * Irish Bob Murphy, Irish-American boxer Edwin Lee Conarty (1922–1961) * Irish McCal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023 Deaths
The following notable deaths occurred in 2023. Names are reported under the date of death, in alphabetical order. A typical entry reports information in the following sequence: * Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent nationality (if applicable), what subject was noted for, cause of death (if known), and reference. January 18 17 *Jay Briscoe, 38, American professional wrestler ( ROH, CZW, NJPW), traffic collision. * Teodor Corban, 65, Romanian actor ('' 12:08 East of Bucharest'', '' 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days'', ''Tales from the Golden Age''). * Manana Doijashvili, 75, Georgian pianist. *Leon Dubinsky, 81, Canadian actor (''Life Classes'', ''Pit Pony''), theatre director and composer (" Rise Again"). *Renée Geyer, 69, Australian singer (" Say I Love You", "Heading in the Right Direction", " Stares and Whispers"), complications from hip surgery. *, 89, Italian choreographer and television and theatre director. *, 90, Iranian voice actor. *Larry Morris, 75, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1952 Births
Year 195 ( CXCV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Scrapula and Clemens (or, less frequently, year 948 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 195 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Emperor Septimius Severus has the Roman Senate deify the previous emperor Commodus, in an attempt to gain favor with the family of Marcus Aurelius. * King Vologases V and other eastern princes support the claims of Pescennius Niger. The Roman province of Mesopotamia rises in revolt with Parthian support. Severus marches to Mesopotamia to battle the Parthians. * The Roman province of Syria is divided and the role of Antioch is diminished. The Romans annexed the Syrian cities of Edessa and Nisibis. Severus re-establish his h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Pye
Patrick Pye RHA (1929 – 8 February 2018) was a sculptor, painter and stained glass artist, resident in County Dublin. Pye was born in Winchester, England. He died in Dublin, Ireland. Career Major commissions can be seen across Ireland. In 1999 a retrospective of his work was exhibited by the Royal Hibernian Academy. He is a founding member of Aosdána. He has been described as "the most important creative artist in the sphere of religious thought in Ireland in our time". The poet Michael Longley described the way Pye was treated in the last year of his life as "crass, unforgivably crass". References External links Patrick Pye's websiteBiographical noteat Aosdána Aosdána ( , ; from , 'people of the arts') is an Irish association of artists. It was created in 1981 on the initiative of a group of writers with support from the country's Arts Council. Membership, which is by invitation from current member ... * McAvera B. "Patrick Pye, Life and Work" Four Courts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Hanratty
Alice Hanratty (born 1939) is an Irish artist who specialises in printmaking with a preference for etching. Life Alice Hanratty was born in Dublin and studied painting and printmaking at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, and the Hornsey College of Art, London. She spent some time working in East Africa in the late 1960s which had some influence on her work. She is a member of Aosdána, the academy or affiliation of Irish artistsAosdána short biography and was for a time, a member of its governing body, the Toscaireacht. As well as exhibiting work in major Irish group shows, she has represented Ireland at exhibitions such as the ''International Impact Exhibition'', |
Michael Mulcahy (painter)
Michael Mulcahy (born 1952, in Waterford) is an Irish expressionist painter who lives and works in Paris, but returns frequently to Ireland. Michael Mulcahy was educated at the Crawford Municipal School of Art in Cork and the National College of Art and Design in Dublin. He has travelled extensively, particularly in north and west Africa where he has lived and worked in the local community. The Douglas Hyde Gallery in Dublin held a major exhibition of his work in 1994. He has at least one child, a girl. He now resides in Wexford Wexford () is the county town of County Wexford, Ireland. Wexford lies on the south side of Wexford Harbour, the estuary of the River Slaney near the southeastern corner of the island of Ireland. The town is linked to Dublin by the M11/N11 N ..., and opened a working gallery in the town. Work in collections * The Arts Council of Ireland including: ** References and external links * *Dorothy Walker (2003), ''Mulcahy, Michael'' in Brian Lalor (E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Burns (poet)
Jim Burns is an English poet, writer and magazine editor. He was born in Preston, Lancashire in 1936. Burns was educated at grammar school, worked in mills, and joined the army in 1954. While stationed in Germany, Burns developed a love of jazz and of American writers, accessible through American Forces Network radio and through bookshops stocking new literature for American service personnel. After leaving the army in 1957, he returned to Preston and sought out new writers filtering through to Britain, travelling to Manchester and London to explore those experimental bookshops which stocked the more difficult-to-find ones. Burns had his first poems published in ''New Voice'' magazine in 1962, and soon began writing for and about small poetry magazines in a range of publications including ''The Guardian'', ''Tribune'' and ''Ambit''. Several books of his poetry have been published, including two volumes of his selected works. In 1964, Burns launched ''Move'', a poetry magazine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dermot Bolger
Dermot Bolger (born 1959) is an Irish novelist, playwright, poet and editor from Dublin, Ireland. Born in the Finglas suburb of Dublin in 1959, his older sister is the writer June Considine. Bolger's novels include ''Night Shift'' (1982), ''The Woman's Daughter'' (1987), ''The Journey Home'' (1990), ''Father's Music'' (1997), ''Temptation'' (2000), ''The Valparaiso Voyage'' (2001) and ''The Family on Paradise Pier'' (2005). He is a member of the artist's association Aosdána. Career Bolger's early work – especially his first three novels, all set in the working class Dublin suburb of Finglas, and his trilogy of plays that chart forty years of life in the nearby high-rise Ballymun tower blocks that have since been demolished – was often concerned with the articulation of the experiences of working-class characters who, for various reasons, feel alienated from society. Later novels are more expansive in their themes and locations. Two novels, ''The Family on Paradise Pier'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Barker (poet)
George Granville Barker (26 February 1913 – 27 October 1991) was an England, English poet, identified with the New Apocalyptics movement, which reacted against 1930s realism with mythical and surrealistic themes. His long liaison with Elizabeth Smart (Canadian author), Elizabeth Smart was the subject of her cult-novel ''By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept''. Life and work Barker was born in Loughton, near Epping Forest in Essex, England, to English father George Barker (1879–1965), a temporary police constable and former batman in the Coldstream Guards (during World War I, when he returned to the regiment, he earned a field commission to the rank of Major) who later worked as a butler at Gray's Inn, and Irish mother Marion Frances (1881–1953), née Taaffe, from Mornington, County Meath, near Drogheda, Ireland; the couple moved to Chelsea, London, Chelsea when Barker was six months old. His younger brother was the painter Kit Barker; they were raised at Batters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eoghan Ó Tuairisc
Eoghan Ó Tuairisc (''Eugene Rutherford Watters'') (3 April 1919 – 24 August 1982) was an Irish poet and writer. Life Eugene Rutherford Watters was born at Dunlo Hill, Ballinasloe, County Galway, to Thomas Watters, a soldier, and his wife, Maud Sproule. His second name came from his grandfather, Rutherford Sproule. He was educated at Garbally College. His entered St. Patrick's Teacher Training College, Drumcondra in 1939, graduating with a Diploma in Education in 1945. He was awarded an MA, by University College Dublin in 1947. Ó Tuairisc held a commission in the Irish Army during the Emergency from 1939 to 1945. He was a teacher in Finglas, Co. Dublin from 1940 to 1969. From 1962 to 1965, he was editor of ''Feasta'', the journal of Conradh na Gaeilge. His first wife, the Irish artist Una McDonnell, died in 1965. The following five years were an unsettled period of limited productivity, changing residence and jobs, and, ultimately, serious depression. In 1972 he ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
