James Liddy

Liddy, James (1934- ), poet; born in Dublin and educated at UCD, and the King's Inns, he practised law in Dublin and then taught in America. His poetry expresses a discontent with orderly lives and humdrum routine, praising spontaneity and emotion. His chief collections are Esau, My Kingdom for a Drink (1962), In a Blue Smoke (1964), Blue Mountain (1968), A Munster Song of Love and War (1969), Orpheus in the Ice Cream Parlour (1975), Comyn's Lay (1979), At the Grave of Father Sweetman (1984) and Art Is Not for Grown-Ups (1990). A short novel, Young Men Go Walking (1986), is notable for its open celebration of homosexuality. His Collected Poems were issued in 1995.