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Kevin McCann writes for RTÉ Culture about Irish novelist, playwright, poet and short story writer, Dermot Healy.
As part of ILF Dublin, Timothy O’Grady presents Only Himself, a star-studded celebration of Dermot Healy on May 24th. This essay is from Dermot Healy: Writing the Sky, to be published by Dalkey Archive Press
It was like an eye opening,
An eye, or a space
Between life and itself,
And through it poured the days,
When Dermot Healy died suddenly at his home in bleakly beautiful Ballyconnell, Co Sligo last Sunday, Ireland lost one of its leading poets, one of its leading novelists, and one of its
In his tribute to his friend Dermot Healy, President Higgins was right to emphasise Dermot's particular affinity with the Irish community in Britain. Dermot was an emigrant himself. Whe
THE death of anybody is sad for those family members, friends and acquaintances who are left behind, but the death of a contemporary is especially so, and not a little troubling, too, i
The late Dermot Healy’s majesty across the various writing forms is reflected in those who paid tribute to him choosing a different piece of work as their personal favourite. Dermot, who passed away on Monday morning, aged 66, was respected equally as a novelist, poet, short story writer, and memoir writer. ,
This is the story of a writer and his place, his dog and three thousand migrating barnacle geese. the writer is Dermot Healy, an outstanding poet, playwright, novelist…
In his most famous work, A Goat’s Song, he excelled himself in revealing the Irish male as the dreamer, the broken thing that a man becomes when the women have gone away
At The Gallery Press we mourn the death of Dermot Healy whose poems it has been our privilege and proud pleasure to have published since his first collection, The Ballyconnell Colours in 1992.
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“It was with great sadness that I learned of the death of Dermot Healy. His was a wonderful talent. Widely regarded as one of our finest contemporary writers, Dermot will be remembered alongside the greatest Irish writers of any age. Through his writings and his poetry, Dermot was an inspiration to many, and his loss will be keenly felt by us all. I would like to express my deepest sympathy to his wife Helen, his two children and all of his family and friends. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam dílis.”
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Dermot Healy was born in Finea, County Westmeath, in 1947. His prose books include Banished Misfortune (stories), The Bend for Home (memoir), Fighting with Shadows, A Goat’s Song and Sudden Times (novels) and Long Time, No See (2011).
He wrote and directed plays, including The Long Swim, On
International arts and literature magazine from Ireland
Dermot Healy opened his volume of poetry and showed me how he had fashioned the pattern of lines on the page to recreate the shape of a flock of birds in flight. It was beautiful to loo
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Irish writer Dermot Healy has made that final bend toward home
Minneapolis Star Tribune
“There is a line between [fact and fiction],” he said. “In fiction, something that did not happen has to happen.
Writer laid to rest yesterday in the company of poets and artists, musicians and singers, a president and, above all, his neighbours
The sad news came to Sligo that Dermot Healy passed away this week. Here is an exclusive interview the Sligo Weekender had with him in December 2008: North Sligo based Dermot Healy, author, director, actor, raconteur and all-round national legend, talks to Paul McMahon about writing novels, Force Ten, and the sea. The first time …
This is the story of a writer and his place, his dog and three thousand migrating barnacle geese. the writer is Dermot Healy, an outstanding poet, playwright, novelist…
This month's Poem of the Month is 'Serenities' by Dermot Healy.
Vincent Woods pays tribute to the memory of poet, novelist and playwright Dermot Healy who died today
Author and poet who wrote A Goat's Song, one of the great Irish novels of recent times
Sligo was saddened to hear this morning of the death of one of Ireland’s greatest writers, Dermot Healy. The Maugherow resident passed away at home last night at the age of 66. His literary works include Banished Misfortune, The Bend for Home, Fighting with Shadows, and Long Time, No See. It was selected for an …
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