Seán Ó Tuama

Seán Ó Tuama grew up in Gurranebraher, Co. Cork, and attended the renowned North Monastery school before going to University College, Cork, where he was influenced by Prof Daniel Corkery. He, in turn, influenced the next generation of writers in Irish at UCC through his lectures on Modern Irish poetry, stimulating them to revolutionize its subject matter, structure, and forms. Ó Tuama is the author of five plays and his poetry collections include Faoileán Na Beatha (1962) and Death in the Land of Youth: New and Selected Poems (1997). An Grá in Amhráin na nDaoine (1960) and An Grá i bhFilíocht na nUaisle (1988) are amongst his most notable academic works, while he remains best known for An Duanaire: Poems of the Dispossessed (1981), a bilingual anthology in collaboration with Thomas Kinsella. Seán Ó Tuama died in 2006.