Seán Dunne (poet)
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Career
Dunne edited several anthologies, beginning with "The Poets of Munster" (1985) and finishing with the "Ireland Anthology" which was completed posthumously by George O'Brien and his partner Trish Edelstein. He released 3 collections of poems. Seán Dunne's collections of poems have all been well received, and in order of release are: "Against the Storm" (1985), "The Sheltered Nest" (1992) and "Time and the Island". The account of his childhood "In My Father's House" was released in 1991, and was a bestseller.Life
Seán Dunne's father was Richard Dunne. His mother died when Seán was four, in 1960. Sean attended Scoil Lorcain primary school in St Johns Park, just moments from where he lived, and later Mount Sion secondary school in Waterford city where he wrote for the school magazine and participated in organising poetry and music evenings. He attended University College Cork (UCC) where he was taught by Sean Lucy and John MontagueJohn Montague
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and others. He was active in student politics, as detailed in his memoir The Road to Silence.
After college Dunne settled in Cork where he worked in the city library and continued to write and publish poems. Around this time he began to make a living from freelance journalism. Soon he joined the Cork Examiner daily newspaper where he became a prominent columnist.
Dunne died young on 3 August 1995 of a heart problem.