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Icarus is a student literary magazine
Literary magazine

A literary magazine is a periodical devoted to literature in a broad sense. Literary magazines usually publish short stories, poetry and essays along with literary criticism, book reviews, biographical profiles of authors, interviews and letters....
 based in Trinity College, Dublin
Trinity College, Dublin

Trinity College, Dublin , corporately designated as the Provost, Fellows and Scholars of the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, was founded in 1592 by Queen Elizabeth I of England as the "mother of a university", and is the only constituent residential college of the University of Dublin....
. It publishes one issue per academic term and accepts submissions of poetry, prose and drama from students, staff and alumni of Dublin University It was founded in 1950 by Alec Reid and has been published with regularity three times a year ever since. Former editors include Rudi Holzapfel
Rudi Holzapfel

Rudolf Patrick Holzapfel, born in Paris, France, on December 11, 1938, died February 6, 2005 in Bonn, Germany was an Irish poet and teacher....
, Brendan Kennelly
Brendan Kennelly

Brendan Kennelly is a popular Irish poet and novelist. He is Professor of Modern Literature at Trinity College Dublin....
, Derek Mahon
Derek Mahon

Derek Mahon is a Northern Ireland poet. He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland....
, Michael Longley
Michael Longley

Michael Longley is a Northern Irish poet.Longley was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and subsequently read Classics at Trinity College, Dublin, where he edited Icarus ....
, Iain Sinclair
Iain Sinclair

Iain Sinclair is a United Kingdom writer and film maker. Much of his work is rooted in London, most recently within the influences of psychogeography....
, David Norris, John Haffenden
John Haffenden

Professor John Haffenden is an academic in the field of Literature at the University of Sheffield....
, Maurice Scully
Maurice Scully

Maurice Scully is an Irish poetry and editor who works in the Modernist poetry tradition. Scully was born in Dublin and educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he edited the student literary magazine, Icarus ....
, Sebastian Barry
Sebastian Barry

Sebastian Barry is an Ireland playwright, novelist, and poet. He is the son of the late Irish actress Joan O'Hara....
, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin

Eil?an N? Chuillean?in is an Irish poetry born in Cork ....
, David Wheatley
David Wheatley

David Wheatley is an Ireland poet and critic. He studied at Trinity College, Dublin where he edited Icarus . Wheatley is the author of three volumes of poetry with Gallery Press, as well as several chapbooks....
, and Selina Guinness.

Notable contributors have included John Montague
John Montague

John Montague may refer to:*John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich , British statesman*John Montague , Irish poet and writer*John Montague , baseball relief pitcher...
, Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney is an Irish people poet, writer and lecturer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. He currently lives in Dublin....
, Paul Durcan
Paul Durcan

Paul Durcan is a contemporary Irish people poet....
, Louis MacNeice
Louis MacNeice

Frederick Louis MacNeice was a United Kingdom poet and playwright. He was part of the generation of "thirties poets" which included W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender and C....
, Matthew Sweeney, E. A. Markham
E. A. Markham

Edward Archie Markham FRSL was a poet and writer, born in Harris, Montserrat, and mainly resident in the United Kingdom from 1956. Known for poetry in both "nation-language" and standard English languge, for short stories and a comic novel, he sometimes used the pseudonym Paul St....
, Donald Davie
Donald Davie

Donald Alfred Davie was an English Movement poet, and literary critic. His poems in general are philosophical and abstract, but often evoke various landscapes....
, 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....
, John F. Deane
John F. Deane

John F. Deane is an Ireland poet and novelist. He founded Poetry Ireland and The Poetry Ireland Review in 1979....
, Thomas Kinsella
Thomas Kinsella

Thomas Kinsella is an Irish poetry, translator, editor, and publisher....
, W. R. Rodgers
W. R. Rodgers

William Robert Rodgers , known as Bertie, and born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, was probably best known as a poet, but was also a prose essayist, a book reviewer, a radio broadcaster and script writer, a lecturer and, latterly, a teacher, as well as a former Presbyterian minister of religion....
, Frank O’Connor, Edward Lucie-Smith
Edward Lucie-Smith

John Edward McKenzie Lucie-Smith is a British writer, poet, art critic, curator, broadcaster and author of exhibition catalogues.He was born in Kingston, Jamaica, moving to the United Kingdom in 1946....
, Eavan Boland
Eavan Boland

Eavan Boland is an Ireland poet....
, Seamus Deane
Seamus Deane

Seamus Deane is an Irish people poet, critic and novelist.Deane was born into a Roman Catholic Irish nationalism family. He attended the well known St....
, Gerald Dawe, Caitriona O'Reilly
Caitriona O'Reilly

Caitriona O'Reilly is an Ireland poet and critic. She took BA and PhD degrees in Archaeology and English at Trinity College, Dublin, and was awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature for her poetry collection, The Nowhere Birds ; she has also held the Harper-Wood Studentship from St John's College, Cambridge....
, Sinead Morrissey
Sinead Morrissey

Sin?ad Morrissey is a poet from Northern Ireland.Raised in Belfast, she was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where she took BA and PhD degrees, and won the Patrick Kavanagh Award in 1990....
, Justin Quinn
Justin Quinn

Justin Quinn is an Irish poetry and critic, born in Dublin in 1968. He received a doctorate from Trinity College, Dublin, where his contemporaries included poets Caitriona O'Reilly and Sinead Morrissey, and now lives with his wife and sons in Prague....
, Thom Gunn
Thom Gunn

Thom Gunn was an Anglo-American poet. He was born Thomson William Gunn in Gravesend, Kent, Kent, the son of Bert Gunn. In his youth, he attended University College School in Hampstead, London....
, Colm Tóibín
Colm Tóibín

Colm T?ib?n is a multi-award-winning Irish novelist and critic....
, Vona Groarke
Vona Groarke

Vona Groarke is an Irish people poet, and was born in Edgeworthstown in the Irish midlands in 1964. She has published four collections of poetry with the Gallery Press: Shale , Other People's Houses , Flight , and Juniper Street ....
, Brian Keenan, 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....
, Desmond Hogan
Desmond Hogan

Desmond Hogan is an Ireland writer.Hogan was born in Ballinasloe in east County Galway, Ireland. His father was a draper. Educated locally at St....
, Monk Gibbon
Monk Gibbon

William Monk Gibbon was an Irish poet and prolific author. He wrote also novels, travel writing and criticism. He has been characterised as "self-regarding and prickly"....
, Arland Ussher
Arland Ussher

Percival "Percy" Arland Ussher was an Anglo-Irish academic, essayist and translator.Born in Battersea, London, he studied at Cambridge University for some time....
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Icarus is a student literary magazine
Literary magazine

A literary magazine is a periodical devoted to literature in a broad sense. Literary magazines usually publish short stories, poetry and essays along with literary criticism, book reviews, biographical profiles of authors, interviews and letters....
 based in Trinity College, Dublin
Trinity College, Dublin

Trinity College, Dublin , corporately designated as the Provost, Fellows and Scholars of the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, was founded in 1592 by Queen Elizabeth I of England as the "mother of a university", and is the only constituent residential college of the University of Dublin....
. It publishes one issue per academic term and accepts submissions of poetry, prose and drama from students, staff and alumni of Dublin University It was founded in 1950 by Alec Reid and has been published with regularity three times a year ever since. Former editors include Rudi Holzapfel
Rudi Holzapfel

Rudolf Patrick Holzapfel, born in Paris, France, on December 11, 1938, died February 6, 2005 in Bonn, Germany was an Irish poet and teacher....
, Brendan Kennelly
Brendan Kennelly

Brendan Kennelly is a popular Irish poet and novelist. He is Professor of Modern Literature at Trinity College Dublin....
, Derek Mahon
Derek Mahon

Derek Mahon is a Northern Ireland poet. He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland....
, Michael Longley
Michael Longley

Michael Longley is a Northern Irish poet.Longley was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and subsequently read Classics at Trinity College, Dublin, where he edited Icarus ....
, Iain Sinclair
Iain Sinclair

Iain Sinclair is a United Kingdom writer and film maker. Much of his work is rooted in London, most recently within the influences of psychogeography....
, David Norris, John Haffenden
John Haffenden

Professor John Haffenden is an academic in the field of Literature at the University of Sheffield....
, Maurice Scully
Maurice Scully

Maurice Scully is an Irish poetry and editor who works in the Modernist poetry tradition. Scully was born in Dublin and educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he edited the student literary magazine, Icarus ....
, Sebastian Barry
Sebastian Barry

Sebastian Barry is an Ireland playwright, novelist, and poet. He is the son of the late Irish actress Joan O'Hara....
, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin

Eil?an N? Chuillean?in is an Irish poetry born in Cork ....
, David Wheatley
David Wheatley

David Wheatley is an Ireland poet and critic. He studied at Trinity College, Dublin where he edited Icarus . Wheatley is the author of three volumes of poetry with Gallery Press, as well as several chapbooks....
, and Selina Guinness.

Notable contributors have included John Montague
John Montague

John Montague may refer to:*John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich , British statesman*John Montague , Irish poet and writer*John Montague , baseball relief pitcher...
, Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney is an Irish people poet, writer and lecturer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. He currently lives in Dublin....
, Paul Durcan
Paul Durcan

Paul Durcan is a contemporary Irish people poet....
, Louis MacNeice
Louis MacNeice

Frederick Louis MacNeice was a United Kingdom poet and playwright. He was part of the generation of "thirties poets" which included W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender and C....
, Matthew Sweeney, E. A. Markham
E. A. Markham

Edward Archie Markham FRSL was a poet and writer, born in Harris, Montserrat, and mainly resident in the United Kingdom from 1956. Known for poetry in both "nation-language" and standard English languge, for short stories and a comic novel, he sometimes used the pseudonym Paul St....
, Donald Davie
Donald Davie

Donald Alfred Davie was an English Movement poet, and literary critic. His poems in general are philosophical and abstract, but often evoke various landscapes....
, 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....
, John F. Deane
John F. Deane

John F. Deane is an Ireland poet and novelist. He founded Poetry Ireland and The Poetry Ireland Review in 1979....
, Thomas Kinsella
Thomas Kinsella

Thomas Kinsella is an Irish poetry, translator, editor, and publisher....
, W. R. Rodgers
W. R. Rodgers

William Robert Rodgers , known as Bertie, and born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, was probably best known as a poet, but was also a prose essayist, a book reviewer, a radio broadcaster and script writer, a lecturer and, latterly, a teacher, as well as a former Presbyterian minister of religion....
, Frank O’Connor, Edward Lucie-Smith
Edward Lucie-Smith

John Edward McKenzie Lucie-Smith is a British writer, poet, art critic, curator, broadcaster and author of exhibition catalogues.He was born in Kingston, Jamaica, moving to the United Kingdom in 1946....
, Eavan Boland
Eavan Boland

Eavan Boland is an Ireland poet....
, Seamus Deane
Seamus Deane

Seamus Deane is an Irish people poet, critic and novelist.Deane was born into a Roman Catholic Irish nationalism family. He attended the well known St....
, Gerald Dawe, Caitriona O'Reilly
Caitriona O'Reilly

Caitriona O'Reilly is an Ireland poet and critic. She took BA and PhD degrees in Archaeology and English at Trinity College, Dublin, and was awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature for her poetry collection, The Nowhere Birds ; she has also held the Harper-Wood Studentship from St John's College, Cambridge....
, Sinead Morrissey
Sinead Morrissey

Sin?ad Morrissey is a poet from Northern Ireland.Raised in Belfast, she was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where she took BA and PhD degrees, and won the Patrick Kavanagh Award in 1990....
, Justin Quinn
Justin Quinn

Justin Quinn is an Irish poetry and critic, born in Dublin in 1968. He received a doctorate from Trinity College, Dublin, where his contemporaries included poets Caitriona O'Reilly and Sinead Morrissey, and now lives with his wife and sons in Prague....
, Thom Gunn
Thom Gunn

Thom Gunn was an Anglo-American poet. He was born Thomson William Gunn in Gravesend, Kent, Kent, the son of Bert Gunn. In his youth, he attended University College School in Hampstead, London....
, Colm Tóibín
Colm Tóibín

Colm T?ib?n is a multi-award-winning Irish novelist and critic....
, Vona Groarke
Vona Groarke

Vona Groarke is an Irish people poet, and was born in Edgeworthstown in the Irish midlands in 1964. She has published four collections of poetry with the Gallery Press: Shale , Other People's Houses , Flight , and Juniper Street ....
, Brian Keenan, 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....
, Desmond Hogan
Desmond Hogan

Desmond Hogan is an Ireland writer.Hogan was born in Ballinasloe in east County Galway, Ireland. His father was a draper. Educated locally at St....
, Monk Gibbon
Monk Gibbon

William Monk Gibbon was an Irish poet and prolific author. He wrote also novels, travel writing and criticism. He has been characterised as "self-regarding and prickly"....
, Arland Ussher
Arland Ussher

Percival "Percy" Arland Ussher was an Anglo-Irish academic, essayist and translator.Born in Battersea, London, he studied at Cambridge University for some time....
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