Sean Lucy

Seán Lucy (12 March 1931 – 25 July 2001) was an Irish poet and educator.

Biography Lucy was born in Bombay, British India in 1931. His father was an Irish officer in the British army, who resigned his commission in 1935 to resettle the family in Ireland. Lucy was enrolled at Glenstal Abbey School, and later attended University College Cork, where he earned his bachelor's and master's degrees. where he eventually became professor and department chair. The composer Sean O Riada, who lectured in music at the university from 1963 to 1971, was a friend. During this time, he published his first major critical work, TS Eliot and The Idea of Tradition (1960).

Following his early retirement from UCC in 1986, and the poets and writers Greg Delanty, William Wall, Theo Dorgan, Sean Dunne, Maurice Riordan, Gerry Murphy and Thomas McCarthy were students of Montague and Lucy at UCC in the 1970s.