Deane, Seamus (1940- ), poet, scholar and novelist; born in Derry and educated at QUB and Cambridge, he taught at UCD, where he was Professor of Modern English and American Literature, before moving to the University of Notre Dame in 1993. Gradual Wars (1972), a first collection of poetry, introduces themes relating to personal and cultural continuity in a society divided along sectarian lines. These issues form the core of Rumours (1977) and History Lessons (1983). He became a Director of Field Day and wrote two pamphlets: Civilians and Barbarians (1983) and Heroic Styles: The Tradition of an Idea (1984). Celtic Revivals: Essays in Modern Irish Literature (1984), A Short History of Irish Literature (1986), and the enigmatic Strange Country (1997) are critical works offering readings of Irish literary history as tracked by colonial tension and division. French Revolution and Enlightenment in England, 1789-1832 (1988) was followed by the Field Day Anthology of Irish Literature (1991) which he edited. Reading in the Dark (1996) was an allusive and disturbing novel of the Troubles.
Seamus Deane
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Seamus Deane (born 1940 in Derry, Northern Ireland) is an Irish poet, critic and novelist.
Deane was born into a Roman Catholic nationalist family. He attended the well known St. Columb's College in Derry, Queen's University Belfast (BA and MA) and Pembroke College, Cambridge University (PhD). At St. Columb's he became friend's with fellow-student Seamus Heaney.
Works
His first novel, Reading in the Dark (published in 1996), was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won The Irish Times International Fiction Prize and The Irish Literature Prize in 1997. He is also the general editor of The Field Day Anthology Of Irish Writing.
His nonfiction work includes:
- Celtic Revivals: Essays in Modern Irish Literature 1880-1980 (1985)
- A Short History Of Irish Literature (1986)
- The French Enlightenment And Revolution In England 1789-1832, Harvard University Press, (1988)
- Strange Country : Modernity and Nationhood in Irish Writing since 1790 (1997)
- Foreign Affections: Essays On Edmund Burke (2005)
His poetry includes:
- Gradual Wars (1972)
- Rumours (1977)
- History Lessons (1983)
Seamus Deane is currently the Keough Professor of Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame,Indiana, and a co-editor of Field Day Review, an annual Irish literary journal: http://fielddaybooks.com. In the late 70s and 80s, he taught American college juniors part-time at the School of Irish Studies in the Ballsbridge section of Dublin.
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 | Reading in the Dark |
| New Yorker Presents Out Loud (1997 Album by Various Artists) |
| The 20th Century with Mike Wallace: The IRA - 30 Years of Terror (1996 Culture & Society Film) |
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- New Yorker Presents Out Loud (1997 Album by Various Artists)
- The 20th Century with Mike Wallace: The IRA - 30 Years of Terror (1996 Culture & Society Film)
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