About Patrick Deeley
Born 1953. Patrick Deeley is an Irish poet, primary school teacher and writer.
Patrick Deeley (born 1953) is an Irish poet.
Life Patrick Deeley was born in Mullagh, Loughrea, County Galway. His poems have been widely published and anthologised in Ireland and abroad over the past forty years, and translated to French, Italian, Spanish and other languages. He has received awards, including the inaugural Dermot Healy Poetry Prize and the 2019 Lawrence O'Shaughnessy Prize for Poetry. His works of fiction for younger readers include The Lost Orchard, winner of the EilÃs Dillon Award in 2001. His bestselling memoir, The Hurley Maker's Son, was published by Doubleday Ireland/Transworld and shortlisted for the 2016 Irish Nonfiction Book of the Year Award. He formerly worked as a primary school principal in Dublin. In the 1980s, Deeley was on the council of Poetry Ireland.
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Irish poet
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Patrick Deeley was born in 1953.
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Patrick Deeley is a poet, primary school teacher and writer.
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