Julie O'Callaghan

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Julie O'Callaghan
BornChicago, Illinois
OccupationPoet
Notable awardsMichael Hartnett Award for poetry

Julie O'Callaghan (born 1954) is an American poet based in Ireland. She has written poetry for both children and adults.

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Life

Born in Chicago, Julie O'Callaghan came to Ireland in July 1974 after two years of college in the United States. to study for a third year at Trinity College Dublin. Abandoning her degree, she moved to Ireland permanently, taking a job in the Library of Trinity College. [1] In 1985 she married the Irish poet Dennis O'Driscoll, [2] who she met at a poetry reading by Seamus Heaney at the Lantern Theatre in Dublin. O'Driscoll died in 2012. [1]

The Arts Council of Ireland awarded her bursaries in 1985, 1990 and 1998. She has been published in the Times Literary Supplement, [3] as well as The Observer, The Guardian, The Irish Times, Poetry Ireland Review and New Statesman. Several of her poetry collections have been recommended by The Poetry Book Society. [4]

In 2021 her poem The Net was covered by the Irish Independent. Her book Magnum Mysterium (2020) was reviewed by Tristram Fane Saunders, in The Telegraph. [5]

O'Callaghan received the Michael Hartnett Poetry Award in 2001, which stated she writes poems which 'seem effortless and are immediately accessible and achieve great emotional weight by the lightest of means'. [5]

She is a member of the Aosdána. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 James Bennett, Anyone who calls themselves a poet is not a poet – Julie O’Callaghan, Trinity News, November 5, 2014.
  2. Contemporary Poets. St. James Press. 1991. p. 715. ISBN   978-1-55862-035-3.
  3. "Julie O'Callaghan Archives". TLS. Retrieved 27 October 2023.
  4. "Aosdána". aosdana.artscouncil.ie. Retrieved 27 October 2023.
  5. 1 2 "Magnum Mysterium by Julie O'Callaghan". The Poetry Book Society. Retrieved 27 October 2023.