Julie ocallaghan biography

Julie O’Callaghan

Life
1954- ; b.

Born in Chicago in , Julie O'Callaghan has lived in Ireland since Her collections of poetry include Edible Anecdotes (Dolmen Press, ).

Julie O'Callaghan was born in in Chicago.

Julie O'Callaghan is an American poet based in Ireland.

O' Callaghan was born in in Chicago.

Born in Chicago in , Julie O'Callaghan has lived in Ireland since Her collections of poetry include Edible Anecdotes (Dolmen, ), a Poetry Book.

Chicago, descendant or great-grandparents from Ballyjamesduff, Co. Cavan and dg. of High School teacher in Chicago; moved to Ireland, 1974 and stayed on; worked in TCD Library; issued Edible Anecdotes (1983), Poetry Books Soc.

Recommendation; also What’s What (1992), Poetry Book Choice; also No Can Do (2000), while Taking My Pen for a Walk (1988) and Two Barks (1999) are poetry collections for teenagers; winner of Michael Hartnett Poetry Award, 2001; Arts Council Bursaries in 1985, 1990, and 1998; elected to Aosdána, May 2003; issued Problems (2005) and Tell Me This is Normal: New and Selected Poems (2007), Poetry Book Recommendation; mbr.

of Aosdana; suffered the loss of her husband Dennis O’Driscoll [q.v.], Dec. 2012; recently issued Magnum Mysterium (Bloodaxe Books 2020) - on the untimely death of her husband.

 

Works
Tell Me This is Normal: New and Selected Poems (Newcastle-upon-Tyne :Bloodaxe