Anthony Cronin

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Anthony Cronin ( December 23, 1928 in Enniscorthy , County Wexford - December 27, 2016 in Dublin ) was an Irish writer who was best known as a poet and played an essential role in the founding of the Aosdána artists' association .

Life

Cronin was born in Enniscorthy, southeast Ireland, in 1928, the son of a reporter. He received his education at Blackrock College, a Catholic boys' school in County Dublin , where he wrote his first poetry, and at University College Dublin in Dublin . He then acquired a BL at King's Inns .

Cronin's first publications were poetry and date from the late 1950s. In addition to several other collections of poetry, he then published two novels , a drama, biographies and essays and worked as editor several times, including from 1956 to 1958 for the British weekly literary magazine Time and Tide ; during this time he lived in London . In the 1950s he was an active member of the Labor Party . He was also later a government advisor, columnist and university professor in the United States.

Cronin was of particular importance as a mentor to the young Dermot Bolger in the late 1970s and as one of the initiators of the founding of Aosdána in 1981, at a time when he was also the cultural and artistic advisor to the then Taoiseach Charles J. Haughey .

Cronin has taught at Drake University in Des Moines , Iowa and the University of Montana and was a columnist for the Irish Times from 1974 to 1987 . In 1983 he received the Marten Toonder Award for his contribution to Irish literature and in 2003 he was honored by the Aosdána members with the title Saoi , which is only given to seven living Irish artists. Cronin published his poetry from 1980 mainly in Dublin with Bolgers Raven Arts Press and then with New Island Books. He lived with the writer Anne Haverty (* 1959) in Ranelagh, Dublin.

Works

Novels

• The Life of Riley (1964)
• Identity Papers (1979)

Poetry

• Poems (London 1958)
• Collected Poems 1950–1973 (1973)
• Reductionist Poem (1980)
• RMS Titanic (1981)
• 41 Sonnet Poems (1982)
• New and Selected Poems (1982)
• The End of the Modern World (1989)
• Relationships (1992)
• Minotaur (1999)
• Collected Poems (2004)

drama

• The Shame of It (Peacock Theater, 1974)

Essays and biographies

• Dead as Doornails (1976; “a memoir of literary Dublin and London”)
• Heritage Now, Irish Literature in the English Language (1981)
• A Question of Modernity (1966)
• An Irish Eye (1985)
• Art for the People? (1988)
• No Laughing Matter: The Life and Times of Flann O'Brien (1989)
  • German: Flann O'Brien. A biography , from the English by Matthias Fienbork. Frankfurter Verl.-Anst., Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-627-10230-4 .
• Samuel Beckett, The Last Modernist (1996)

editor

• New Poems (1960, with Jon Silkin)
• The Courtship of Phelim O'Toole, Stories by William Carleton (1962)

Web links

• Literature by and about Anthony Cronin in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Anthony Cronin: poet, novelist, biographer and cultural commentator . Obituary in The Irish Times , December 28, 2016, accessed December 30, 2016.
2. ↑ Writer and critic Anthony Cronin dies aged 88 . Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTE), December 28, 2016, accessed on December 30, 2016 (English).
3. ↑ Cronin, Anthony . ( Memento of the original from November 20, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Irish Writers Online, accessed December 30, 2016. Other sources (LoC) give 1925 as the year of birth. 
4. ↑ Anthony Cronin. PGil's Landscaping and Gardens Blog, June 30, 2002, archived from the original on June 30, 2002 ; accessed on December 30, 2016 (English). 
5. ↑ Cronin, Anthony. New Island, archived from the original on February 17, 2010 ; accessed on December 30, 2016 (English). 
6. ^ Archive of the Raven Arts Press 1971-1993 . University of Delaware Library , January 19, 2011, accessed December 30, 2016.
7. ↑ Anthony Cronin . Aosdána , accessed December 30, 2016.
8. ↑ Anne Haverty. PGil's Landscaping and Gardens Blog, July 5, 2002, archived from the original on March 28, 2003 ; accessed on December 30, 2016 (English).