Robert Greacen


Robert Greacen was an Irish poet and member of Aosdána. Born in Derry, Ireland, on 24 October 1920, he was educated at Methodist College Belfast and Trinity College Dublin. He died on 13 April 2008 in Dublin, Ireland.

Publications

His published poetry collections include The Bird, Northern Harvest, One Recent Evening, The Undying Day, A Garland for Captain Fox, I, Brother Stephen, Young Mr Gibbon, A Bright Mask,, Protestant Without a Horse, Carnival at The River ; Collected Poems, Lunch at the Ivy, and Selected & New Poems.
Robert Greacen: Collected Poems 1944-1994, won the Irish Times Award for Literature in 1995.
His autobiography, Even Without Irene, was published by the Dolmen Press in 1969 and re-issued in 1995 by Lagan Press. An expanded autobiography, The Sash My Father Wore, was published in Edinburgh by Mainstream Publishing in 1997.

Family

He was married to the late Patricia Hutchins, author of Ezra Pound's Kensington and James Joyce's Dublin. They had one daughter, Arethusa Greacen, who resides in the Republic of Ireland.