Maurice Harmon
Maurice Harmon was born in 1930 in Co Dublin.
His published academic work includes Sean O Faolain: A Critcal Study;
(Notre Dame, IN, University of Notre Dame Press, 1966); The Poetry of Thomas Kinsella (Dublin, Wolfhound, 1974/Thomas Kinsella: Designing for the Exact Needs, Dublin, Irish Academic Press, 2008); Select Bibliography for the Study of Anglo-Irish Literature and Its Backgrounds: An Irish Studies Handbook (Portland, PD Meany, 1977); An Irish Studies Handbook for Anglo-Irish Literature and Its Backgrounds : A Select Bibliography (Wolfhound Press, 1977);
Austin Clarke 1896-1974; a Critical Introduction (Merlin Press, 1998); No Author Better Served: The Correspondence between Samuel Beckett and Alan Schneider (Harvard University Press, 1998); and The Colloquy of the Old Men, his translation of Acallam na Senorach, the medieval compendium of stories and poems (Academica Press, 2001
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His poetry collections include The Last Regatta, Selected Poems 1988-2000 (Cliffs of Moher, Salmon. 2000). The Doll with Two Backs (Salmon, 2004); The Mischievous Boy (Salmon, 2008); and When Love is Not Enough; New & Selected Poems (Salmon, 2010).
Thomas Kinsella is one of a number of contributors to Honouring the Word: Poetry and Prose. Celebrating Maurice Harmon on His 80th Birthday, edited by Barbara Brown (Salmon, 2010).
He lives in Dublin.
