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Name
  
Frank Ormsby


Role
  
Poet

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Education
  
Queen's University Belfast

Books
  
A Store of Candles, A northern spring

Edited works
  
Poets From the North of Ireland - Second Edition

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Francis Arthur Ormsby (born 1947, Irvinestown, County Fermanagh) is a Northern Irish author and poet.

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Life

Educated at St Michael's College, Enniskillen and Queen's University Belfast, he was editor of The Honest Ulsterman from 1969-89, and has also edited the Poetry Ireland Review. From 1976 until his retirement in 2010, he was Head of English at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution.

In 1992 he received the Cultural Traditions Award, given in memory of John Hewitt, and in 2002 the Lawrence O'Shaughnessy Award for Poetry from the University of St. Thomas (St. Paul, Minnesota), a Roman Catholic university.

References

Frank Ormsby Wikipedia