Bernard O'Donoghue, Esq's Biography
- Forename(s)
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(James) Bernard
- Sex
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Male
- Date of Birth
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14/12/1945
- Surname
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O'DONOGHUE
- Style
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Bernard O'Donoghue, Esq
- Recreations
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classical and Irish music, Manchester City FC
Bernard O'Donoghue, Esq's Professional Career
- Career
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writer; trainee systems analyst IBM (UK) 1968-69; tutor in English language and Medieval literature Magdalen Coll Oxford 1971-95, fell in English Wadham Coll Oxford 1995-2011 (emeritus fell 2011-); Cholmondeley Award for Literature 2009; Hon DA Univ of Sunderland 2006; memb AUT 1971-; fell English Assoc, FRSL 1999
Bernard O'Donoghue, Esq's Publications
- Books and Publications
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The Courtly Love Tradition (1982), Seamus Heaney and the Language of Poetry (1994), Oxford Irish Quotations (ed, 1999), Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (trans, 2006), Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney (2009); Poetry Razorblades and Pencils (1984), Poaching Rights (1987), The Absent Signifier (1990), The Weakness (1991, Southern Arts Award), Gunpowder (1995, Whitbread Poetry Prize), Here Nor There (1999), Outliving (2003), Selected Poems (2008), Farmers Cross (2011)
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