Medbh mcguckian biography of william hill
Medbh mcguckian biography of william hill
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Medbh McGuckian
Life
| 1950- [née Maeve Teresa Philomena McCaughan]; b. 12 Aug. in Belfast, of nationalist parents, her mother a former telephonist; ed.
Holy Family Primary School, Newlington and Dominican Convent, Fortwilliam Park; Queen’s University, Belfast, B.A. 1972, and M.A. thesis on ‘Gothic Influence on Nineteenth Century Anglo-Irish Fiction’, dealing with the Banims, Marim. Biography of william shakespeareJohn McGuckian, a school-teacher, 1977, with whom 3 sons and a daughter; a Edgeworth and William Carleton, 1974; first publ. poem, ‘‘Marriage’’, appeared in Honest Ulsterman (June 1975); teacher at Dominican Convent and St. Patrick’s, Knock, East Belfast; |
| wrote ‘‘The Flitting’’, a poem submitted pseudonymously under a male name, winning the National Poetry Competition, 1979; Eric Gregory Award, 1980; The Flower Master (1982), won her the Rooney Prize and Alice Hunt Bartlett Award; ed.
The Big Striped Golfing Umbrella |