1. Thomas Kinsella was an Irish poet, translator, editor, and publisher.
10 Facts About Thomas Kinsella
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Thomas Kinsella began publishing poetry in the early 1950s and, around the same time, translated early Irish poetry into English.
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Thomas Kinsella was born on 4 May 1928 in Inchicore to working-class but "cultured" parents John Paul Kinsella and Agnes, nee Casserly.
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Thomas Kinsella entered University College Dublin in 1946, initially to study science.
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At Miller's suggestion, Thomas Kinsella turned his attention to the translation of early Irish texts.
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Thomas Kinsella produced versions of Longes Mac Usnig and The Breastplate of St Patrick in 1954 and of Thirty-Three Triads in 1955.
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Thomas Kinsella edited Austin Clarke's Selected Poems and Collected Poems for Dolmen and The New Oxford Book of Irish Verse.
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In 1965, Thomas Kinsella left the civil service to teach at Southern Illinois University, and in 1970 he became a professor of English at Temple University.
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Thomas Kinsella received the honorary Freedom of the City of Dublin on 24 May 2007.
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Thomas Kinsella died in Dublin on 22 December 2021, at the age of 93.