Gerald Dawe

Gerald Dawe was educated at the University of Ulster, Coleraine, and the National University of Ireland, Galway.

A Fellow of Trinity College Dublin, he is director of the Oscar Wilde Centre for Irish Writing and senior lecturer in the School of English at TCD.

His seven collections of poetry include The Lundys Letter, Sunday School, Heart of Hearts, The Morning Train, Lake Geneva and Points West. He has also published a volume of collected criticism, The Proper Word; a memoir, My Mother-City; and Catching the Light: Views and Interviews.

He was the John J. Burns Visiting Professor at Boston College and Charles Heimbold Professor in Irish Studies at Villanova University, Philadelphia.

He lives in County Dublin.