Bernard O'Donoghue FRSL was born on 14 December 1945 and is a contemporary Irish poet and academic.
12 Facts About Bernard O'Donoghue
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Bernard O'Donoghue was born on 14 December 1945 in Cullen, County Cork, Ireland, where he lived on a farm.
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Bernard O'Donoghue moved to Wadham College, Oxford in 1995 as Fellow and tutor in medieval English literature and English language.
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Bernard O'Donoghue specialised in Chaucer studies, but taught Modern Irish Literature, especially poetry.
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Bernard O'Donoghue retired from teaching in 2011, but stayed with Wadham as an emeritus fellow.
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Fuller, Bernard O'Donoghue's colleague at Magdalen College, Oxford, was an English poet and novelist, who ran the college poetry society, the Florio Society of which Bernard O'Donoghue was a member.
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Bernard O'Donoghue has contributed to the discourse on modern poetry with two studies of Seamus Heaney.
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Two early medieval anthologies by Bernard O'Donoghue were The Courtly Love Tradition and the related Thomas Hoccleve Selected Poems.
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Bernard O'Donoghue moved on from the medieval to the Irish with Oxford Irish Quotations.
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Bernard O'Donoghue received the 1995 Whitbread prize for Poetry for his collection Gunpowder, and the Cholmondeley Award in 2009.
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Bernard O'Donoghue was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1999.
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Bernard O'Donoghue succeeded Seamus Heaney as Honorary President of the Irish Literary Society of London in 2014.