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Life
1947- ; b. Newcastle, Co. Down; ed. St. Malachy’s College, Belfast; entered Dominican Order, 1966; teaches at Dominican Studium, Tallaght, UCD and Angelicum Univ., Rome; collections, Ritual Poems (1971); Rites and Meditations (1982); The Absent Fountain (1991); also issued criticism as The Mysticism Debate (1977) and T S Eliot and Mysticism (1991).
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Works
Poetry, Ritual Poems (Dublin: New Writers’ Press 1971); Rites and Meditations (Dublin: Dolmen 1982); The Absent Fountain (Dublin Dedalus Press 1991), 75pp..
Criticism, The Mysticism Debate (US: Herald Press 1977); T. S. Eliot and Mysticism: The Secret History of Four Quartets (London: Macmillan 1991), 326pp., and Do. [rep. with corr.] (London: Macmillan), xiv, 326pp.
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References
Anthologies: Anthoologised in Faber Book of Irish Verse, ed. John Montague (Faber: London 1974) [“Rain”] and Younger Irish Poets, ed. John F. Deane (Dublin: Dedalus 1993) [“Meditation IX” and “Widow”].
Publications to 1994: Ritual Poems (Dublin: New Writers’ Press 1971), ltd. edn. 500 copies; Rites and Meditations (Dublin:Dolmen 1982) [0 85105 393 9]; The Absent Fountain (Dublin: Dedalus Press 1991) [0 948268 98 0].
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