Full Name Robert Greacen Name Robert Greacen Occupation Poet Role Poet | Years active 1941–2008 Home town Dublin Spouse(s) Patricia Hutchins | |
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Born 24 October 1920 ( 1920-10-24 ) Derry, Ireland Died April 13, 2008, Dublin, Republic of Ireland Education Methodist College Belfast, Trinity College, Dublin Books The sash my father wore, Dedalus Irish Poets: An Anthol, Selected and New Poems, Even without Irene, Collected poems - 1944‑1994 | ||
Robert Greacen (24 October 1920 – 13 April 2008) was an Irish poet and member of Aosdána. Born in Derry, Ireland, on 24 October 1920, he was educated at Methodist College Belfast and Trinity College Dublin. He died on 13 April 2008 in Dublin, Ireland.
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Publications
His published poetry collections include The Bird (1941), Northern Harvest (Belfast, Derrick MacCord, 1944), One Recent Evening (1944), The Undying Day (London, The Falcon Press, 1948), A Garland for Captain Fox (Dublin, The Gallery Press, 1975), I, Brother Stephen (Dublin, St. Beuno’s, 1978), Young Mr Gibbon (1979), A Bright Mask, (Dublin, The Dedalus Press, 1985), Protestant Without a Horse (Belfast, The Lagan Press, 1997), Carnival at The River (Dublin; Dedalus;, 1990); Collected Poems (Lagan Press, 1995), Lunch at the Ivy (Lagan Press, 2002), and Selected & New Poems (ed. by Jack W. Weaver, Cliffs of Moher, Salmon Publishing, 2006).
Robert Greacen: Collected Poems 1944-1994, won the Irish Times Award for Literature in 1995.
His autobiography, Even Without Irene, was published by the Dolmen Press in 1969 and re-issued in 1995 by Lagan Press. An expanded autobiography, The Sash My Father Wore, was published in Edinburgh by Mainstream Publishing in 1997.
Family
He was married to the late Patricia Hutchins, author of Ezra Pound's Kensington and James Joyce's Dublin. They had one daughter, Arethusa Greacen, who resides in the Republic of Ireland.