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Francis Arthur 'Frank' Ormsby (born near Enniskillen
Enniskillen

Enniskillen is the county town in County Fermanagh. It is located almost exactly in the centre of the county between the Upper and Lower sections of Lough Erne....
, County Fermanagh
County Fermanagh

County Fermanagh , is the westernmost of the six counties that form Northern Ireland, and is part of the Province of Ulster. Fermanagh is often referred to as Ireland's Lake District, together with neighbouring County Cavan....
, Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland

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 in 1947) is a Northern Irish poet
Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry....
.

He was educated at St Michael's College, Enniskillen
Enniskillen

Enniskillen is the county town in County Fermanagh. It is located almost exactly in the centre of the county between the Upper and Lower sections of Lough Erne....
 and Queen's University Belfast. He was editor of The Honest Ulsterman
The Honest Ulsterman

The Honest Ulsterman was a long running Northern Ireland literary magazine that was established by James Simmons in 1968 in poetry. It was then edited for twenty years by Frank Ormsby....
 from 1969 to 1989, and has also edited the Poetry Ireland Review
Poetry Ireland Review

Poetry Ireland Review is a journal of Irish poetry published quarterly by Poetry Ireland, the national Irish poetry organization.Poetry Ireland Review publishes the work of both emerging and established Irish and international poets....
. Since 1976 he has been Head of English at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution
Royal Belfast Academical Institution

The Royal Belfast Academical Institution, commonly known as 'Inst.', is a Voluntary secondary school non-denominational grammar school for boys, founded in 1810, in College Square, Belfast, Northern Ireland and is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference ....
.

In 1992 he received the Cultural Traditions Award, given in memory of John Hewitt, and in 2002 the Lawrence O'Shaughnessy Award for Poetry from the University of St.






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Francis Arthur 'Frank' Ormsby (born near Enniskillen
Enniskillen

Enniskillen is the county town in County Fermanagh. It is located almost exactly in the centre of the county between the Upper and Lower sections of Lough Erne....
, County Fermanagh
County Fermanagh

County Fermanagh , is the westernmost of the six counties that form Northern Ireland, and is part of the Province of Ulster. Fermanagh is often referred to as Ireland's Lake District, together with neighbouring County Cavan....
, Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland

conventional_long_name = Northern Ireland|native_name= Tuaisceart ?ireannNorlin Airlann|motto =|image_map = Europe location N-IRL2.png...
 in 1947) is a Northern Irish poet
Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry....
.

He was educated at St Michael's College, Enniskillen
Enniskillen

Enniskillen is the county town in County Fermanagh. It is located almost exactly in the centre of the county between the Upper and Lower sections of Lough Erne....
 and Queen's University Belfast. He was editor of The Honest Ulsterman
The Honest Ulsterman

The Honest Ulsterman was a long running Northern Ireland literary magazine that was established by James Simmons in 1968 in poetry. It was then edited for twenty years by Frank Ormsby....
 from 1969 to 1989, and has also edited the Poetry Ireland Review
Poetry Ireland Review

Poetry Ireland Review is a journal of Irish poetry published quarterly by Poetry Ireland, the national Irish poetry organization.Poetry Ireland Review publishes the work of both emerging and established Irish and international poets....
. Since 1976 he has been Head of English at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution
Royal Belfast Academical Institution

The Royal Belfast Academical Institution, commonly known as 'Inst.', is a Voluntary secondary school non-denominational grammar school for boys, founded in 1810, in College Square, Belfast, Northern Ireland and is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference ....
.

In 1992 he received the Cultural Traditions Award, given in memory of John Hewitt, and in 2002 the Lawrence O'Shaughnessy Award for Poetry from the University of St. Thomas at St Paul, Minnesota.

Publications

  • Ripe for Company (Belfast
    Belfast

    Belfast is the capital city of Northern Ireland and the seat of Devolution#United Kingdom Northern Ireland Executive and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly in Northern Ireland....
    , Ulsterman Publications, 1971)
  • A Store of Candles (Oxford University Press, 1977)
  • A Northern Spring (London, Secker & Warburg, 1986)
  • The Ghost Train (Oldcastle, Co Meath, The Gallery Press, 1995)


  • Edited volumes
    • Poets from the North of Ireland (Belfast, Blackstaff Press, 1979 revised edition, 1990)
    • Thine in Storm and Calm: An Amanda McKittrick Ros Reader (Blackstaff Press, 1988)
    • The Collected Poems of John Hewitt (Blackstaff Press, 1991)
    • Northern Windows: An Anthology of Ulster Autobiography (Blackstaff Press, 1987)
    • The Hip Flask: Short Poems from Ireland (Blackstaff Press, 2001)


See also