Anthony Gerard Richard Cronin was an Irish poet, arts activist, biographer, commentator, critic, editor and barrister.
18 Facts About Anthony Cronin
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Anthony Cronin was married to Therese Campbell, from whom he separated in the mid-1980s.
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Anthony Cronin died on 27 December 2016, one day short of his 93rd birthday, having married a second wife, the writer Anne Haverty; his daughter Sarah survived him.
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Anthony Cronin was known as an arts activist as well as a writer.
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Anthony Cronin was Cultural Adviser to the Taoiseach Charles Haughey.
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Anthony Cronin involved himself in initiatives such as Aosdana, the Irish Museum of Modern Art and the Heritage Council.
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Anthony Cronin was a founding member of Aosdana, and was a member of its governing body, the Toscaireacht, for many years; he was elected Saoi in 2003.
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Anthony Cronin was a member of the governing bodies of the Irish Museum of Modern Art and the National Gallery of Ireland, of which he was Acting Chairman.
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Anthony Cronin contributed to many television programmes, including Flann O'Brien: Man of Parts and Folio.
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From 1966 to 1968 Anthony Cronin was a visiting lecturer at the University of Montana and from 1968 to 1970 he was a poet in residence at Drake University.
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Anthony Cronin read a selection of his poems for the Irish Poetry Reading Archive in 2015.
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Anthony Cronin had honorary doctorates from several institutions, including Dublin University, the National University of Ireland and the University of Poznan.
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Anthony Cronin began his literary career as a contributor to Envoy, A Review of Literature and Art.
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Anthony Cronin was editor of The Bell in the 1950s and literary editor of Time and Tide.
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Anthony Cronin wrote a weekly column, "Viewpoint", in The Irish Times from 1974 to 1980.
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Anthony Cronin's novel, The Life of Riley, is a satire on bohemian life in Ireland in the mid-20th century, while his memoir Dead as Doornails addresses the same subject.
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Anthony Cronin knew Samuel Beckett from when they did some work for the BBC during the 1950s and 1960s.
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Anthony Cronin gave a prefatory talk to Patrick Magee's reading of The Unnamable on the BBC Third Programme.