Gerald Dawe

Gerald Dawe was born in Belfast and educated at Ulster University and at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He has published eight collections of poetry with The Gallery Press, including The Lundys Letter - for which he was awarded the Macaulay Fellowship in Literature - Sunday School, Heart of Hearts, The Morning Train, Lake Geneva, Points West, Selected Poems and Mickey Finn's Air. He was founder-Director of Trinity Oscar Wilde Centre (1998-2015) and established, with Brendan Kennelly, the M Phil in Creative Writing, the first such course to be offered in an Irish university. He has published several collections of essays, including Of War and War's Alarms and also edited anthologies of Irish poetry, including the ground-breaking Earth Voices Whispering: Irish poetry of war 1914-1945. He lives in Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin.