GERALD DAWE

Biography

Gerald Dawe was born in Belfast in 1952 and educated at Orangefield Boys' School, the University of Ulster and the National University of Ireland, Galway where he taught for several years. Since 1987 he has lectured in the School of English, University of Dublin, Trinity College , where he is Senior Lecturer in English, director of the Oscar Wilde Centre for Irish Writing and he also directs the graduate writing programme. He is a Fellow of the English Association (UK) and was elected Fellow of Trinity College Dublin in 2004. He was Burns Visiting Professor at Boston College College (2005) and Heimbold Chair of Irish Studies (Villanova, Philadelphia 2009)

His collections of poetry include The Lundys Letter (1985), Sunday School (1991), Heart of Hearts (1995), The Morning Train (1999) Lake Geneva (2003) and Points West (2008).   He has also published collections of essays and edited several volumes of literary criticism and poetry anthologies including Earth Voices Whispering:Irish War Poetry 1914-1918 (2008). He is the recipient of various awards including a Major State Award (1974-1977), the Macaulay Fellowship for Literature (1985, Hawthornden Fellowship (1986) and Ledwig-Rowohlt International Writer Fellowship (1999), as well as Literature Bursaries from the Arts Council of Ireland (1980/2005).

He lives in County Dublin .

 photo: Bobbie Hanvey