Anthony Cronin

Anthony Cronin

Anthony Cronin, by Patrick Swift, 1950, National Gallery of Ireland
Born 1928
Enniscorthy, County Wexford, Ireland
Occupation Poet
Nationality Irish
Education University College Dublin

Anthony Cronin (born 1928 in Enniscorthy, County Wexford) is an Irish poet, novelist, biographer, critic, commentator and arts activist.

With writers Flann O’Brien, Patrick Kavanagh and Con Leventhal, Cronin celebrated the first Bloomsday in 1954. Cronin has contributed to many television programmes, including Flann O’Brien: Man of Parts (BBC) and Folio (RTE).[1] From 1966-1970 Cronin was Visiting Lecturer at the University of Montana and Poet In Residence at Drake University. Cronin has Honorary Doctorates from several institutions such as Dublin University, Trinity College, the National University of Ireland and the University of Poznan.

As an arts activist and Adviser on Arts and Culture to Taoiseach Charles Haughey (and briefly to Garret Fitzgerald) Cronin was the originator of important artistic initiatives established during Cronin's tenure such as Aosdána, the Irish Museum of Modern Art and the Heritage Council (Ireland). Cronin was the inspiration and a founding member of Aosdána and was elected its first Saoi (a distinction conferred for exceptional artistic achievement) in 2003. Cronin is a member of its governing body, the Toscaireacht. Cronin has been a member of the governing bodies of the Irish Museum of Modern Art and the National Gallery of Ireland (of which Cronin was for a time Acting Chairman) and is currently a member of the Toscaireacht of Aosdana.

Cronin wrote an influential and stylistically elegant weekly discourse, Viewpoint, in the Irish Times from 1974-1980. More recently Cronin contributes a column on poetry to the Sunday Independent.

Cronin began his literary career as a contributor to Envoy, A Review of Literature and Art, was Editor of The Bell (magazine) in the 1950s and Literary Editor of Time and Tide (magazine) (London). Cronin's first collection of poetry, "Poems" (Cresset, London), was published in 1958. Several collections followed and "Collected Poems" (New Island, Dublin) was published in 2004. The End Of The Modern World (New Island, 2016), written over several decades, is his most recent publication. Cronin's poetry is remarkable ‘for its modernist rigour and wit, shot through with a perceptive understanding of emotional frailty’.[2]

"The Life of Riley", Cronin's first novel is a brilliantly sophisticated satire on bohemian life in the Ireland of the mid 20th century while Cronin's memoir "Dead As Doornails" is regarded as a movingly witty classic on the same subject.

Cronin has written landmark biographies of two significant Irish literary figures, Flann O’Brien in "No Laughing Matter" and Samuel Beckett in "The Last Modernist".

From 1966-68, Cronin was a visiting lecturer at the University of Montana and from 1968–70 and Poet in Residence at Drake University. Cronin had a weekly discourse, 'Viewpoint', in the Irish Times from 1974–80.

Cronin lives in Dublin with his wife, fellow author Anne Haverty[3] and contributes to the Sunday Independent.

Bibliography

Poetry: main collections

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Literary Criticism & Commentary:

Poets Patrick Kavanagh and Anthony Cronin at the church in Monkstown with the carriage in which they had been proceeding about Dublin in the footsteps of Leopold Bloom, the protagonist in Ulysses - 50 years after Bloom traversed the city in James Joyce's novel.

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References

  1. ↑ http://www.redirectify.com/people/anthony-cronin.html
  2. ↑ Encyclopaedia of Ireland
  3. ↑ Miriam O Callaghan meets writers Anthony Cronin and Anne Haverty Retrieved 2016-03-11.
  4. ↑ http://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000189542
  5. ↑ The Notion of Commitment, X, Vol. I, No. I (November 1959); Is Your Novel Really Necessary? (under the pseudonym Martin Gerard), X, Vol. I, No. I (November 1959); R.M.S. Titanic, X, Vol. I, No. II (March 1960); Goodbye to All That: A Child's Guide to Two Decades (under the pseudonym Martin Gerard), X, Vol. I, No. II (March 1960); A Question Of Modernity, X, Vol. I, No. IV (October 1960); Molloy becomes Unnamable (under the pseudonym Martin Gerard), X, Vol. I, No. IV (October 1960); Getting Wurred In, X, Vol. II, No. I (March 1961); Two Poems, X, Vol. II, No. II (August 1961); It Means What It Says (under the pseudonym Martin Gerard), Vol. II, No. II ( August 1961). Also in An Anthology from X (OUP 1988).

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