The Irish Literary Times

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. ,

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

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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

Writer laid to rest yesterday in the company of poets and artists, musicians and singers, a president and, above all, his neighbours

This month's Poem of the Month is 'Serenities' by Dermot Healy.

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 …