Life
1940- ; poet; b. Dublin; primary ed. Hacketstown, Co. Carlow, then at St. Mary’s College, Rathmines; UCD, and Hull University, where he was awared a research fellowship, 1966; teacher
in Grammar School at Bridlington, Yorkshire, 1969-88; Executive Director of the British Association for Irish Studies, 1988-92; member of the Irish Texts Society Council from 1989 and Secretary from 1992; engaged in Irish in Britain charity, 1994-2008.
[There is an entry on Seán Hutton at Portraits of Irish-Language Writers - online; accessed 22.08.2023; it incls. a poem entitled “Crann Siochana” from As Sceach sa Bhearna, (Coiscéim 2011), pp.27–28.]
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Works
Poetry, Go Cathair Na Traoi agus Danta Eile (Baile Átha Cliath: Clódhanna Teoranta 1980), 47pp.; Gáirdín Mo Sheanucail (Baile Átha Cliath: Coiscéim 1983), 46pp; Seachrán Ruairí (Baile Átha Cliath: Coiscéim 1986), 54pp. [title poem follows Roger Casement on walk round Dublin as recorded in the ‘Black Diaries’, giving sketches of Douglas Hyde, Mícheál Mac Liammóir]; also Na Grása (1993); Sceach sa Bhearna, (Baile Átha Cliath: Coiscéim 2011).
Miscellaneous, ed., with Paul Stewart, Irish Histories: Aspects of State, Society and Ideology (London: Routledge 1991), 304pp.; also, with P O Snodaigh & T. Weldon, Irish History Workshop (Dublin: History Workshop 1981) and Do. (History Workshop 1988) [bilingual].
Contrib. to The Irish in Britain: An Annotated Bibliography on Health and Related Issues, compiled by Máire Gaffney, Mary Tilki, Brian Lovett, Karen Scanlon, Seán Hutton, Greg Cahill, Peter Aspinall and David Kelleher ([London] : Federation of Irish Societies 2000), 60 pages [30cm.]
Anthol. [with Eavan Boland et al.], The Poolbeg Book of Irish Poetry for Children (Swords: Poolbeg Press 1997), 139pp.
[Note: Coiscéim is based at Howth [Beann Éadar, Co. Dublin.]
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