12 Facts About Pearse Hutchinson

Pearse Hutchinson was an Irish poet, broadcaster and translator.

Pearse Hutchinson's mother, Cathleen Sara, was born in Cowcaddens, Glasgow, of emigrant parents from Donegal.

Pearse Hutchinson then went to school at the Christian Brothers, Synge Street where he learnt Irish and Latin.

Pearse Hutchinson returned to Ireland in 1953, and he became interested in the Irish language poetry of writers such as Piaras Feiritear and Aonghus Fionn O Dalaigh, and published a number of poems in Irish in the magazine Comhar in 1954.

Pearse Hutchinson went home to Ireland in 1957 but returned to Barcelona in 1961, and continued to support Catalan poets.

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In 1967, having spent nearly ten years altogether in Spain, Pearse Hutchinson returned to Ireland, making a living as a poet and journalist writing in both Irish and English.

In October 1971, Hutchinson took up the Gregory Fellowship in Poetry at the University of Leeds, on the recommendation of Professor A Norman Jeffares.

Pearse Hutchinson contributed a weekly column on the Irish language to the station's magazine RTE Guide for over ten years.

Pearse Hutchinson's most recent English collection was Barnsley Main Seam ; the long title poem celebrates the splendours of York Minster, and is a homage to the manual workers of the world.

Pearse Hutchinson's Collected Poems were published in 2002 to mark his 75th birthday.

Pearse Hutchinson is a member of Aosdana, the state-supported association of artists, from which he received a cnuas to allow him to go on writing.

Pearse Hutchinson's poems are often short, they can appear delicate on the page, and they sometimes seem to record glimpses or passing glances, but they always embody and, at their best, articulate Hutchinson's desire for what he once called "true gentleness".