Dawe, Gerald.

The Rest is History.

First Reprint. Newry, Abbey Press, 1998. Octavo. 123 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Examines Belfast through its poetry and culture. Signed and inscribed by Gerald Dawe to John and Hilary Wakeman.

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. He was later involved in the Lyric Youth Theatre under inspirational teacher and theatre director, Sam McCready. Around this time he started to write poems and after a brief period living in London, he returned to the North, receiving a B.A. (Hons) from the fledging New University of Ulster (1974) where his professor was the left wing literary critic and novelist, Walter Allen. Dawe has published extensively on Irish poetry and cultural issues, much of which is collected in his prose works: The Proper Word: Collected Criticism and My Mother-City (both 2007); The World as Province: Selected Prose(2009) and ‘Conversations:Poets & Poetry’ (2011) ‘The Stoic Man’(2015 and ‘Of War and War’s Alarms: Reflections on Modern Irish Writing’ (2015). He has lived for many years in County Dublin with his wife, Dorothea, who was chairperson of the Irish-British ‘think-tank’, Encounter, director of the cultural resource body, Cultures of Ireland and head of public affairs at Ireland’s national theatre, The Abbey, during the late 1990s. (Wikipedia).

• Keywords: From the Archive / Library of John and Hilary Wakeman [Poetry Magazine THE SHOP] · John & Hilary Wakeman Poetry Collection · Library & Collection Building · Poetry – Rare · Wakeman Poetry Collection & Archive
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9781901617030
• Inventory Number: 43541AB