Anthony Cronin

Anthony Cronin ( born 1928 in Enniscorthy, County Wexford ) is an Irish writer who was known primarily as a poet and played a significant role in the creation of the artist association Aosdána.

Life

Cronin was born in 1928 in Enniscorthy in the southeast of Ireland, the son of a reporter. He was educated at Blackrock College, a Catholic boys' school in County Dublin, where he wrote his first poems, and at UCD in Dublin. At King 's Inns he acquired then a BL.

Cronin's first publications were poems, dating from the late 1950s. In addition to several other poetry collections he has then also two novels, drama, biographies and essays submitted and repeatedly worked as an editor, including 1956-1958 with the British literary weekly magazine Time and Tide; During this time he lived in London. In the 1950s he was an active member of the Labour Party. He was also later government adviser, columnist and high school teacher in the United States.

Of particular importance was Cronin as a mentor of young Dermot Bolger end of the 1970s and one of the initiators in establishing Aosdána 1981, in a time in which he also served as a cultural and artistic advisor to the then Taoiseach Charles Haughey J..

Cronin has taught at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, and at the University of Montana and was 1974-1987 columnist for the Irish Times. In 1983 he was awarded for his contribution to Irish literature the Marten Toonder Award and in 2003 he was honored by the Aosdána members entitled Saoi, which is only awarded to seven Living Irish Artists. Cronin has published his poetry from 1980 mainly in Dublin at Bolger's Raven Arts Press and then at New Iceland Books. He lives with the writer Anne Haverty (* 1959) in Ranelagh, Dublin.

Works

Novels

  • The Life of Riley ( 1964)
  • Identity Papers (1979 )

Poetry

  • Poems (London 1958)
  • Collected Poems 1950-1973 (1973 )
  • Reductionist Poem (1980 )
  • RMS Titanic (1981 )
  • 41 Sonnet Poems (1982 )
  • New and Selected Poems (1982 )
  • The End of the Modern World (1989 )
  • Relationships (1992)
  • Minotaur (1999)
  • Collected Poems (2004)

Drama

Essays and biographies

  • Dead as Door Nails ( 1976, " a memoir of literary Dublin and London " )
  • Heritage Now, Irish Literature in the English Language (1981 )
  • A Question of Modernity (1966 )
  • An Irish Eye ( 1985)
  • Art for the People? (1988)
  • No Laughing Matter: The Life and Times of Flann O'Brien ( 1989) German: Flann O'Brien. A biography of the English by Matthias Fienbork. Frankfurt ET - Anst. , Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-627-10230-4.

Publisher

  • New Poems (1960, with Jon Silkin )
  • The Courtship of Phelim O'Toole, Stories by William Carleton (1962 )
Time and Tide (magazine) Labour Party (Ireland) Column (periodical) Integrated Authority File
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