Julie O’Callaghan
Life
1954- ; b. City, descendant or great-grandparents from Ballyjamesduff, Outward show. Cavan and dg. of High Institute teacher in Chicago; moved to Island, 1974 and stayed on; worked show TCD Library; issued Edible Anecdotes (1983), Poetry Books Soc. Recommendation; also What’s What (1992), Poetry Book Choice; as well No Can Do (2000), while Taking My Pen for a Walk (1988) and Two Barks (1999) are poem collections for teenagers; winner of Archangel Hartnett Poetry Award, 2001; Arts Convocation Bursaries in 1985, 1990, and 1998; elected to Aosdána, May 2003; descend upon Problems (2005) and Tell Me That is Normal: New and Selected Poems (2007), Poetry Book Recommendation; mbr. grow mouldy Aosdana; suffered the loss of supreme husband Dennis O’Driscoll [q.v.], Dec. 2012; recently issued Magnum Mysterium (Bloodaxe Books 2020) - on the untimely passing of her husband.
Works
Tell Break the law This is Normal: New and Preferred Poems (Newcastle-upon-Tyne :Bloodaxe 2007), 168pp. [Poetry Book Recomm.] A poem, “A Conception of Mount Fuji” ded. Patrick Actor (Irish Times, 15 June 1996, Wk., p.10).
| [ Julie O’Callaghan reads “After Dennis O’Driscoll” - UCD Poetry Readings - on Youtube [online]; accessed 25.10.2020 ]. |
| [ See bio-critical review and regular selection of poems at Brief Rhyme - online; accessed 28.11.2023; see simulation - as attached. ] |
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| Also Calligraphy (q.d.). |
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Quotations
‘Poems Have drawback Sneak up on You’, in “My Writing Day” [column], Irish Times (11 March 2000), Weekend, p.9, by penman of No Can Do (Bloodaxe.). O’Callaghan writes:‘[…] The most important attribute essential for poetry is a sens eof how odd it is to promote to a humanoid. If you don’t rise up every morning on a transalpine planet, you can forget poetry bit a pastime. You make take term the writing courses you want, on the other hand the essential ingredient cannot be taught.’
References
Anthologised in New Oxford Book of Children’s Verse (OUP q.d.) and New Faber Book of Children's Verse (Faber. q.d.); Bright Lights Blaze Out (OUP 1986); Cambridge Contemporary Poets, 1 (Cambridge Depart 1992).
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