Anthony Cronin
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Anthony Cronin
Cronin, Anthony (1928- ), poet and novelist. Born in Wexford and educated at UCD, he was part of the Dublin literary scene which he chronicled in Dead As Doornails (1976). In 1980 he became cultural adviser to the Taoiseach Charles J. Haughey and created Aos Dána, an affiliation of artists set up in 1983. A comic novel, The Life of Riley (1964), deals with Irish literary Bohemia in the 1940s. Identity Papers (1979) concerns the career of a young man who re-enacts Richard Pigott's treachery until he finds that he is not his descendant. Cronin's poetry, collected in 1973 and again in 1982, is modernist and acerbic though rooted in ordinary experience. R.M.S. Titanic (1967) deals with human and technological crisis. The End of the Modern World (1989) is a sonnet suite dealing with history, sexuality, and decadence. Relationships (1994) is a reflective collection dealing with conscience, while The Minotaur (1999) confronts human violence and love. Criticism includes A Question of Modernity (1966) and Heritage Now (1982). No Laughing Matter (1989) is a biography of Flann O'Brien, and The Last Modernist (1997) of Beckett.
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Anthony Cronin
| Anthony Cronin | |
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 Anthony Cronin, by Patrick Swift, 1950 |
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| Born | 1928 Enniscorthy, County Wexford, Ireland |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Education | University College Dublin |
Anthony Cronin (born 1928 in Enniscorthy, County Wexford) is an Irish poet. He received the Marten Toonder Award (1983) for his contribution to Irish literature.
He is a founding member of Aosdána, was elected Saoi of Aosdána in 2003 and is a member of its governing body, the Toscaireacht.
He lives in Dublin and contributes to the Sunday Independent.
Bibliography
His collections of poems include:
- Poems (London, Cresset, 1958);
- Collected Poems, 1950-73 (Dublin, New Writers Press, 1973);
- Reductionist Poem (Dublin, Raven Arts Press, 1980);
- 41 Sonnet Poems (Raven Arts Press, 1982);
- RMS Titanic (Raven Arts Press, 1981);
- New and Selected Poems (Raven Arts Press/Manchester, Carcanet, 1982);
- The End of the Modern World (1989);
- Relationships (Dublin, New Island Press, 1992); and
- Minotaur (New Island Books, 1999).
Novels:
- The Life of Riley (Knopf, 1964).
Literary Criticism:
- No Laughing Matter: The Life and Times of Flann O'Brien (Brian O'Nolan). New Island Books, 2003. ISBN 1-904301-37-1
- A Question of Modernity, Secker & Warburg, 1966; a collection of critical essays by Cronin.
- He has contributed critical essays to Envoy, The Bell (magazine), Time and Tide (magazine), Nimbus, ‘X’ magazine and the Irish Independent among others.
Memoirs:
- Dead as Doornails (Dublin, Dolmen Press, 1976)
- Essays on Patrick Swift: Patrick Swift 1927-83, Gandon Editions, 1993; IMMA 1993 Patrick Swift Retrospective Catalogue.
Biography:
- Samuel Beckett: The Last Modernist (HarperCollins, 1996)
Editor:
- The Bell (magazine), 1951-2
- Time and Tide (magazine), literary editor in the mid 1950s
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