Gerald Dawe

Gerald Dawe (born 1952) is a Northern Irish writer and poet.

Biography

He was born in north Belfast and attended Orangefield Boys School and Belfast College of Business Studies. In 1971 he attended the University of Ulster, where his professor of English was the distinguished English writer, Walter Allen.

After doing graduate work at the National University of Ireland, Galway, where he taught for many years, he moved to Trinity College, Dublin and has been has been a member of the School of English since 1988. He was elected Fellow of TCD in 2004 and the following year held the Burns Chair in Irish Studies at Boston College. He has given readings and lectures in many parts of the world.

He lives in Dun Laoghaire, County Dublin.

Work

Poetry

* "Sheltering Places" (1978)
* "The Lundys Letter" (1985)
* "Sunday School" (1991)
* "Heart of Hearts" (1995)
* "The Morning Train" (1999)
* "Lake Geneva" (2003)
* "Points West" (2008)

Non fiction

* "Against Piety (1995)
* "The Rest is History (1998)
* "Stray Dogs and Dark Horses (2000)
* "The Proper Word: Ireland, Poetry, Politics (2007)

As editor:

* The Younger Irish Poets (1982)
* Across a Roaring Hill (with Edna Longley) (1985)
* The Poet's Place (with John Wilson Foster (1991)
* The New Younger Irish Poets (1991)
* Ruined Pages: Selected Poems of Padraic Fiacc (with Aodan Mac Poilin) (1994)
* Krino: The Review, 1986-1996 (with Jonathan Williams (1996)
*The Ogham Stone (with Micheal Mulreany (2000)
*The Writer Fellow (with Terence Brown) (2004)

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