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Seán Dunne (1956-1995) was a poet
Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry....
 born in Waterford
Waterford

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, Ireland
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Career
Dunne edited several anthologies, beginning with "The Poets of Munster" (1985) and finishing with the "Ireland Anthology" which was completed posthumously by George O'Brien and his partner Trish Edelstein. He released 3 collections of poems. Seán Dunne's collections of poems have all been well received, and in order of release are: "Against the Storm" (1985), "The Sheltered Nest" (1992) and "Time and the Island".






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Seán Dunne (1956-1995) was a poet
Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry....
 born in Waterford
Waterford

Waterford is the primary city of the South East region. Founded in 914 in Ireland AD, by the Vikings, it is Ireland's oldest city. It is the fifth largest city in the country of Republic of Ireland....
, Ireland
Ireland

Ireland is the List of islands by area in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the north-west of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islet....
.

Career


Dunne edited several anthologies, beginning with "The Poets of Munster" (1985) and finishing with the "Ireland Anthology" which was completed posthumously by George O'Brien and his partner Trish Edelstein. He released 3 collections of poems. Seán Dunne's collections of poems have all been well received, and in order of release are: "Against the Storm" (1985), "The Sheltered Nest" (1992) and "Time and the Island". The account of his childhood "In My Father's House" was released in 1991, and was a bestseller.

Life


Seán Dunne's father was Richard Dunne. His mother died when Seán was four, in 1960. Dunne attended Mount Sion primary and secondary schools in Waterford city where he wrote for the school magazine. He attended University College Cork (UCC) where he was taught by Sean Lucy and John Montague
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 and was part of a stream of talent issuing from the university in that period, which included Maurice Riordan
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, William Wall
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 and others. He was active in student politics, as detailed in his memoir The Road to Silence.

After college Dunne settled in Cork where he worked in the city library and continued to write and publish poems. Around this time he began to make a living from freelance journalism. Soon he joined the Cork Examiner daily newspaper where he became a prominent columnist.

Dunne died young on 3 August 1995 of a heart problem.

Sean Dunne Writers Festival

In 1996 Waterford City Council inaugurated the Sean Dunne Writers Festival in his honour. The 2009 Festival takes place in Wateford City from Thursday 19th March to Saturday 21st March. It features Poets such as Tom Paulin, Conor O'Callaghan and MacDara Woods, with Performance Poets Eamon Carr and Raven. It also features writers AL Kennedy, Paul Carson, Declan Lynch and more. See full programme at http://www.seandunne.ie.