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Poet Desmond O’Grady dies of heart attack

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The late Desmond O'Grady
The late Desmond O’Grady

WORLD renowned poet Desmond O’Grady, who was born in Limerick in 1935, passed away in Cork this week after suffering a heart attack.

Mr O’Grady (78) was a member of Aosdána and was awarded the Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh Fellowship in 2004.

The acclaimed poet went to boarding school in Roscrea; he moved to Paris in the 1950s and worked in the Shakespeare and Company bookshop before he began teaching.

Mr O’Grady was a teaching fellow at Harvard University where he completed his MA and PhD; he also lived and taught in Italy and in Egypt.

President Michael D Higgins has paid tribute to Mr O’Grady, describing him as “one of Ireland’s best-known poets”, who was deeply committed to his work.

Mr O’Grady was a founding member of the European Community of Writers; collections of his work include ‘The Road Taken: Poems 1956-1996’ and ‘The Wandering Celt’.

His funeral will be held in Kinsale, where he lived for the last 25 years of his life.

 

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