David Marcus

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David Marcus

For the soldier, see Mickey Marcus
Mickey Marcus

David Daniel Marcus , commonly known as Mickey Marcus, was a United States Army colonel who assisted Israel during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and who became Israel's first general ....
. For the fictional Star Trek character, see David Marcus (Star Trek).

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David Marcus is an Irish Jewish

History of the Jews in Ireland

The history of the Jews in Ireland extends back nearly a thousand years. Although the Jewish community has always been small in numbers , it has generally been well-accepted into Irish life....
editor who has been a lifelong advocate and editor of Irish fiction.

Born in County Cork

County Cork

County Cork is the most southerly and the largest of the modern counties of Republic of Ireland. Cork is nicknamed "The Rebel County", as a result of the support of the townsmen of Cork in 1491 for Perkin Warbeck, a pretender to the throne of England during the Wars of the Roses....
in 1924, Marcus has edited numerous anthologies

Anthology

An anthology, literally a "garland" or "collection of flowers", is a collection of literary works, originally of poems. In genre fiction and especially science fiction, anthology is used to categorize collections of shorter works such as short story and short novels, usually collected into a single volume for publication....
of Irish fiction and poetry, including the Phoenix Irish Short Stories collections.

Other notable projects include the page New Irish Writing for the Irish Press, which provided a forum for aspiring Irish authors, publishing most of the most important names in Irish fiction, many for the first time, including Dermot Bolger

Dermot Bolger

Dermot Bolger is an Irish novelist, playwright and poet born in Finglas, a suburb of Dublin.His work is often concerned with the articulation of the experiences of working-class characters who, for various reasons, feel alienated from society....
, Ita Daly, Anne Enright

Anne Enright

Anne Enright is a Man Booker Prize-winning Ireland author. She has published essays, short stories, a non-fiction book and four novels. Before her novel The Gathering won the 2007 Man Booker Prize, Enright had a low profile in Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom, although her books were favourably reviewed and widely praised....
, Neil Jordan

Neil Jordan

Neil Jordan is an Academy Award-winning Ireland filmmaker and novelist. He received the Academy Award for The Crying Game....
, Claire Keegan

Claire Keegan

Claire Keegan is an Ireland short stories writer. She was born in County Wicklow in 1968, the youngest of a large Roman Catholic Church family....
, John McGahern

John McGahern

John McGahern was an Irish ethnicity author....
, Bernard MacLaverty

Bernard MacLaverty

Bernard MacLaverty is a writer. He was born in Belfast on 14 September 1942, and lived there until 1975 when he moved to Scotland with his wife, Madeline, and four children ....
, Eilis ni Dhuibhne

Eilis Ni Dhuibhne

?ilis N? Dhuibhne is an Irish people novelist and short-story writer. She is also known as Elisabeth O'Hara....
, Joseph O'Connor

Joseph O'Connor

Joseph Victor O'Connor is an Irish novelist and brother of singer Sin?ad O'Connor. Before success as an author he was a journalist with Sunday newspaper The Sunday Tribune and Esquire ....
, Colm Tóibín

Colm Tóibín

Colm T?ib?n is a multi-award-winning Irish novelist and critic....
and William Wall

William Wall

William Wall is an Ireland novelist, poet and short story writer. He was born in Cork City in 1955, but grew up in the coastal village of Whitegate....
. His 1986 the novel A Land Not Theirs, a fictionalized account of the experiences of the Cork Jewish community during the Irish War of Independence

Irish War of Independence

The Irish War of Independence from January 1919 to July 1921 was a guerrilla warfare mounted against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Ireland by the Irish Republican Army ....
was a bestseller.

In 2001 Marcus published Oughtobiography - Leaves from the diary of a hyphenated Jew, an autobiographical review of his life as an Irish-Jewish person and as a figure in the field of Irish literature.

On June 3, 2005 he was awarded an honorary Degree of Doctor of Literature by the National University of Ireland, University College, Cork

Marcus is married to fellow Irish novelist Ita Daly and lives in Rathgar

Rathgar

Rathgar is a suburb of Dublin, Republic of Ireland, lying about 3 kilometres south of the city centre....
in Dublin

Dublin

Dublin is both the largest city and capital of Republic of Ireland. It is located near the midpoint of Ireland's east coast, at the mouth of the River Liffey and at the centre of the Dublin Region....
.

Bibliography

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at "Irish Writers Online"