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John Montague

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Born: February 27 1929

Died: 0909 12 20162016

John Patrick Montague, BA, MA, MFA, DLitt

American-born Irish poet, writer of short fiction, essayist, and professor. Graduate of University College Dublin and the University of Iowa.

Awarded honourary doctorates by the State University of New York at Buffalo, the University of Ulster, and University College Dublin. Recipient of the American Ireland Fund Literary Award, the Irish-American Cultural Institute’s Award for Literature, a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, and Australia's Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize.

He was appointed the first occupant of the Ireland Chair of Poetry. A native of Brooklyn, New York, he became Distinguished Writer-in-Residence for the New York State Writers' Institute and Professor of Poetry and Writer-in-Residence at State University of New York at Albany. He also taught at University College Cork, Queen’s University in Belfast, Trinity College Dublin, and his alma mater University College Dublin.

In addition to receiving honourary doctorates in the United States and Ireland, France invested him a Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur.

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John Montague

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Books from John Montague

Pharaoh's Daughter

The Book of Irish Verse: Irish Poetry from the Sixth Century to the Present

The Rough Field

Collected Poems | John Montague

Poets from the North of Ireland

Death of a Chieftain

A Ball of Fire: Collected Stories

The Pear is Ripe

Speech Lessons

Mount Eagle

John Rocque's Dublin: a guide to the Georgian city: A Guide to the Georgian City

The Lost Notebook

The Poet's Chair

Irish Pages: Spring / Summer 2005 /A Journal Of Contemporary Writing

A Chosen Light

End of Part One: New and Selected Poems

Dublin Castle: From Fortress to Palace (Vol 1)

Second Childhood

Selected Poems

Anne Madden: Painting and Reality