Maurice Scully (1952 – 5 March 2023) was an Irish poet who worked in the
modernist tradition. Scully was born in
Dublin
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and educated at
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. 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.
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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
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, Britain
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and the United States
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, 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 art
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ists.
Contributors included Roy Fisher, Knute Skinner, William Oxley
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Biography
Oxley began his c ...
, Randolph Healy, Brian Coffey, David Wright
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, Paul Durcan
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Early life
Durcan was born and grew up in Dublin and in Turlough, County Mayo. His father, John, was a barrister and circuit court judge; father and son had a difficult and forma ...
, John Freeman, John Jordan, Anthony Cronin
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Early life and family
Cronin was born in Enniscorthy, County Wexford on 28 December ...
, Gavin Ewart
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Life
Ewart was born in London and educated at Wellington College, before entering ...
, Eoghan Ó Tuairisc, George Barker, Dermot Bolger
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and Jim Burns
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.
The featured painters were Michael Mulcahy, Patrick Hall, Alice Hanratty and 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. I ...
.
Published works
* ''Love Poems & Others'' (1981)
* ''5 Freedoms of Movement'' (1987 & 2000)
* ''Steps'' (1998)
* ''Livelihood'' (2004)
* ''Sonata'', (2006)
* ''Tig'' (2006)
* ''Doing the Same in English'' (2008)
* ''Humming'' (2009)
* ''A Tour of the Lattice'' (2011)
* ''Rain'' (2013)
* ''Several Dances'' (2014)
* ''Game On'' ith Jordi Valls Pozo(2019)
* ''Play Book'' (2019)
* ''Things That Happen'' (2020)
* A book of essays on Scully's poetry ''A Line of Tiny Zeros in the Fabric'' d Kenneth Keatingappeared 2020
References
External links
Author Page
at Smithereens Press
Review of 'Humming'Review of 'Several Dances'
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1952 births
2023 deaths
Irish poets
Irish modernist poets
People from County Dublin
Aosdána members