15 Facts About Dennis O'Driscoll

Dennis O'Driscoll was an Irish poet, essayist, critic and editor.

Dennis O'Driscoll was educated by the Congregation of Christian Brothers.

Dennis O'Driscoll lived in Naas, County Kildare, until his sudden death.

Dennis O'Driscoll took a position as part-time editor of Tax Briefing, a technical journal produced in Ireland, as well as reviewing poetry for Hibernia and The Crane Bag.

Dennis O'Driscoll served on the council of the Irish United Nations Association from 1975 to 1980.

Dennis O'Driscoll died suddenly at the age of 58 over the 2012 Christmas period.

Dennis O'Driscoll was rushed to hospital after becoming ill but quickly succumbed to his fate.

President Michael D Higgins noted that O'Driscoll was "held in the highest regard not only by all those associated with Irish and European poetry".

Joe Duffy, with whom Dennis O'Driscoll had appeared on air on the very week of his death, called Dennis O'Driscoll a "generous, caring and witty man".

Dennis O'Driscoll was published in Poetry, The London Magazine, Harvard Review, The Southern Review, Narrative Magazine, and Poetry Review, and was invited to give readings of his work in the Poetry Room in Harvard University, the Poetry International in London as well as the Hay-on-Wye and Cheltenham festivals of literature.

Dennis O'Driscoll wrote nine books of poetry, three chapbooks, and two collections of essays and reviews.

Dennis O'Driscoll has served as editor of Poetry Ireland Review, as well as of two textbook anthologies entitled The Bloodaxe Book of Poetry, and Quote Poet Unquote.

Dennis O'Driscoll published a collection of literary criticism entitled Troubled Thoughts, Majestic Dreams, which contains a selection of his essays and reviews.

Dennis O'Driscoll served as a judge for the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2009.

Dennis O'Driscoll was the editor of A Michael Hamburger Reader, published by Anvil Press in 2013.