Elgy Gillespie

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Elgy Gillespie
Born1950 (age 7071)
London, United Kingdom
Occupationjournalist, writer
LanguageEnglish
Alma mater Trinity College, Dublin
Literary movement Second-wave feminism
Years active1971–present

Elgy F. Gillespie (born 1950) is an English-born Irish journalist and author.

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Early life

Gillespie was born in London in 1950, to a Belfast father and an Anglo-German mother. She came to Dublin aged 17, reading English at Trinity College, Dublin. [1] [2]

Career

Gillespie wrote for The Irish Times between 1971 and 1986, for columns including "Women First". [3] [4] [5]

Personal life

Gillespie left Ireland in 1986, and has lived in the U.S. since, mostly in San Francisco. [2]

In 2018, she received treatment for an oligodendroglioma. [6]

Bibliography

Irish topics

Food writing

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References

  1. Deane, Seamus; Bourke, Angela; Carpenter, Andrew; Williams, Jonathan (August 6, 2002). The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing. NYU Press. ISBN   9780814799079 via Google Books.
  2. 1 2 "Women of the times". The Irish Times.
  3. Brown, Terence (March 12, 2015). The Irish Times: 150 Years of Influence. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN   9781472919076 via Google Books.
  4. Gillespie, Elgy (August 6, 2003). Changing the Times: Irish Women Journalists 1969-1981. Lilliput Press. ISBN   9781843510185 via Google Books.
  5. Mullally, Una. "A guide to Dublin's old 'junk' markets". The Irish Times.
  6. Gillespie, Elgy. "My big bad brain tumour – An Irishwoman's Diary on surviving a craniotomy". The Irish Times.
  7. "The O'Brien Press | Forty Years, Forty Books". The O'Brien Press. Retrieved 2021-08-04.
  8. Kearns, Kevin C. (October 3, 2014). The Legendary 'Lugs Branigan' – Ireland's Most Famed Garda: How One Man became Dublin's Tough Justice Legend. Gill & Macmillan Ltd. ISBN   9780717159376 via Google Books.
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