Sheila O’Hagan (died 30 December 2017) was a Dublin-based writer and poet.
Biography
Sheila O'Hagan began writing poetry in 1984 while studying at Birkbeck College,
London University
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. She was a teacher of Creative Writing and reviewer, had given a workshop in
Wormwood scrubs prison and was Writer-in-residence for
County Kildare
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.
As a mentor and encourager, O'Hagan was a prominent presence on the Dublin writing scene during the 1990s and onwards for about fifteen years. She ran what became known as "The St. Stephen's Green Writers' Workshop" at her apartment on
St Stephen's Green
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, which included many published, or about-to-be-published, and/or prize-winning authors, among them Tom French, Jean O'Brien, John O'Donnell, Mary O'Donnell, Eugene O'Connell, Clar Ni Aonghusa and Alison Maxwell.
She died on 30 December 2017.
Awards
She won the
Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award
The Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award is an Irish poetry award for a collection of poems by an author who has not previously been published in collected form. It is confined to poets born on the island of Ireland, or who have Irish nationality, or are ...
in 1991, the Goldsmith Award for Poetry in 1988, and the Hennessey/Sunday Tribune Award for New Irish Poet of the Year in 1992. and the Listowel Writers Week, 1990/1998.
Poetry books
*The Peacock's Eye (Salmon Publishing, 1992)
*The Troubled House (Salmon Publishing, 1995)
*Along the Liffey: Poems & Short Stories (Salmon Poetry, 2009)
References
External links
Irish Writers Online biography
2017 deaths
Irish women poets
Year of birth missing
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