Seamus Deane
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Seamus Deane is an Irish poet, critic and novelist.
Deane was born into a Roman Catholic nationalist family in Derry, Northern Ireland in 1940. He attended the well known St. Columb's College in Derry.
[edit] Works
His first novel, Reading in the Dark (published in 1996), was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Irish Times International Fiction Prize and The Irish Literature Prize in 1997. He is also the general editor of The Field Day Anthology Of Irish Writing.
His nonfiction work includes:
- Celtic Revivals: Essays in Modern Irish Literature 1880-1980 (1985)
- A Short History Of Irish Literature (1986)
- The French Enlightenment And Revolution In England 1789-1832, Harvard University Press, (1988)
- Strange Country : Modernity and Nationhood in Irish Writing since 1790 (1997)
- Foreign Affections: Essays On Edmund Burke (2005)
His poetry includes:
- Gradual Wars (1972)
- Rumours (1977)
- History Lessons (1983)
Seamus Deane is currently the Keough Professor of Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame, and a co-editor of Field Day Review, an annual Irish literary journal: http://fielddaybooks.com.
