Alan Titley

Alan Titley (; born 28 June 1947) is an Irish-language novelist, translator, playwright, and scholar. His 2014 poem "An Bhean Feasa" is the longest poem in modern Irish literature. He also writes a column under the name Crobhingne.

Early life and education Alan Titley was born on 28 June 1947 in Cork, Ireland.

He was educated at Coláiste Chríost Rí, St Patrick's College, Dublin, and University College Dublin.

Career Writing Titley writes in both English and the Irish language. He is known for writing novels, and for translating stories from Irish into English.

Titley has written widely on Irish, Anglo-Irish, and Scottish literature, and his work about the Irish novel, titled An tÚrscéal Gaeilge is highly regarded.

He taught in Nigeria during the Biafra War. Later he was head of the Irish Department in Drumcondra from 1981. In 2003 he began to write a column in The Irish Times. In 2006 he was appointed Professor of Modern Irish in University College Cork. He retired in 2011. Titley was elected to the Royal Irish Academy in 2012.

Academia As of 2006 he was head of the Irish Department at St Patrick's College in Dublin.

Many of his stories and plays have been translated into other languages, including Russian, Italian, French, Croatian, Polish, Arabic, Romanian, English and Gaelic.