Dawe, Gerald.

Stray Dogs and Dark Horses. Selected Essays on Irish Writing and Criticism.

First Edition. Newry, Abbey Press, 2000. Octavo. 212 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed by the author. Inscribed to John Wakeman. Number 21 of 250.

Gerald Dawe was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland and grew up with his mother, sister and grandmother. He attended Orangefield Boys School across the city in East Belfast, a leading progressive liberal state school. Dawe worked briefly as an assistant librarian at the Fine Arts department, in the Central Library in Belfast before being awarded a Major State Award for Postgraduate Research from the Dept. of Education, Northern Ireland. Dawe decided to attend University College Galway (UCG) and wrote his graduate thesis on the little-known 19th-century Tyrone novelist and short story writer, William Carleton and started to lecture in the Dept. of English at UCG (now known as the National University of Ireland, Galway). His first full collection, Sheltering Places, was published in 1978, receiving two years later, a Bursary for Poetry from the Arts Council of Ireland. Dawe is the inaugural director of the Oscar Wilde Centre for Irish Writing(1997-2015) and Professor in English with the School of English at Trinity College Dublin. (Wikipedia).

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• Language: English
• ISBN: 9781901617207
• Inventory Number: 43532AB