RIP Ulick O’Connor 1954–2019

Title: Writer and critic Ulick O’Connor dies aged 91

Publisher : RTE Online

Source: https://www.rte.ie/culture/2019/1007/1081602-ulick-oconnor/
The Internet, Online, 15/10/2019

Sample Text:
Writer, poet, historian and critic Ulick O’Connor has died at the age of 91.

Born in Rathgar in Dublin in 1928, O’Connor studied law and practised as a barrister for 15 years, before turning to writing fulltime. A prolific author and popular public speaker, as well as a member of Aosdána, his extensive oeuvre encompasses poetry, biography, literary history and criticism. ….

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Published works

Plays

• The Dream Box (1972)
• The Dark Lovers (1975)
• The Emperor’s Envoy (1976)
• The Grand Inquisitor; Submarine; and Deirdre (Dublin 1977, New York 1980)
• Execution (1985)
• The Oval Machine (1986)
• A Trinity of Two (1988)
• Joycity (1989)
• Deux de la Trinite (translated by Ramond Gerome, 1990).

Poetry collections

• Lifestyles (1973)
• Three Noh Plays (1980)
• All Things Counter (1986)
• One is Animate (1990)
• Poems of the Damned (translations from Baudelaire’s Fleur du Mal, 1991).

Non-fiction and autobiography

• “Irish Tales and Sagas” (1981)
• “A Critic at Large” (1984)
• “Biographers and the Art of Biography” (1990)
• “The Ulick O’Connor Diaries, 1970-1981: A Cavalier Irishman (2003)

Biographical writings

• The Times I’ve Seen:Oliver St. John Gogarty:A Biography (1963)
• Brendan Behan (1970)
• Celtic Dawn: Biography (1984)
• All the Olympians: A Biographical Portrait of the Irish Literary Renaissance (1987)
• Executions (1992)
• The Troubles: Michael Collins and the Volunteers in the Fight for Irish Freedom 1912-22 (2001)