Julie o callaghan biography of alberta

Julie O’Callaghan

Life
1954- ; b. Chicago, descendant or great-grandparents from Ballyjamesduff, Co. Cavan and dg. of High School teacher in Chicago; moved to Ireland, 1974 and stayed on; worked in TCD Library; issued Edible Anecdotes (1983), Poetry Books Soc.

Recommendation; also What’s What (1992), Poetry Book Choice; also No Can Do (2000), while Taking My Pen for a Walk (1988) and Two Barks (1999) are poetry collections for teenagers; winner of Michael Hartnett Poetry Award, 2001; Arts Council Bursaries in 1985, 1990, and 1998; elected to Aosdána, May 2003; issued Problems (2005) and Tell Me This is Normal: New and Selected Poems (2007), Poetry Book Recommendation; mbr.

of Aosdana; suffered the loss of her husband Dennis O’Driscoll [q.v.], Dec. 2012; recently issued Magnum Mysterium (Bloodaxe Books 2020) - on the untimely death of her husband.

Works
Tell Me This is Normal: New and Selected Poems (Newcastle-upon-Tyne :Bloodaxe