John F. Deane
Deane (born 1943 on Achill Island) is an Irish poet and novelist. He founded Poetry Ireland and The Poetry Ireland Review in 1979. • Illustration — John F. Deane at Feile na Greine, Tech Amergin, Waterville.
Also recorded as John Deane
John F. Deane
Myrtle26 · [1] · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Born
- 1943 · Achill Island.
- Nationality
- Ireland
- Occupation
- poet · publisher · writer
- Education
- University College Dublin
- Languages
- English
Encyclopédie VALÉORINE
Le dossier documentaire
Chaque énoncé est lu dans les notices d’autorité des institutions nommées. Choisissez « Preuve » à côté d’un énoncé pour voir la notice d’où il est tiré, l’endroit précis et la date de lecture.
John F. Deane (naissance : 1943) figure dans les notices d'autorité comme poète, écrivain et éditeur.
Vie
John F. Deane naquit en 1943 à Achill Island.
Institutions citées
Bibliothèque nationale de France · Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
Chaîne de lecture complète (JSON)Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for John F. Deane. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.
Sign in to contribute
World of VALÉORINE
Documentary connections
Only confirmed graph relationships appear here. Images are shown only when their identity and reuse rights both pass the documentary gate.
Documentary evidence
Documentary basis
Authority files
wikidata · Q6232254 · wikipedia · John F. Deane
In this article
Personal life
Personal life
Deane was educated at the Jesuit-run boarding school Mungret College, Limerick, and University College Dublin studying English and French, he had been training to become a Spiritan priest, in Killshane, Tipperary and Holy Ghost College, Kimmage Manor but became a teacher. Deane married Barbara Sheridan. Barbara was the daughter of music hall performer Cecil Sheridan, and they had two children. Deane got married again in 1984 to Ursula Foran of Drumkeelanmore, Drumshanbo Co Leitrim, and they have one daughter, Mary, born in 1985.
Career
Career
Deane published several collections of poetry and some fiction. He won the O'Shaughnessy Award for Irish Poetry, the Marten Toonder Award for Literature and poetry prizes from Italy and Romania. Deane was elected Secretary-General of the European Academy of Poetry in 1996. Shortlisted for both the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Irish Times Poetry Now Award, he won residencies in Bavaria, Monaco and Paris. He is a member of Aosdána, the body established by the Arts Council to honour artists "whose work had made an outstanding contribution to the arts in Ireland". In 2007, the French Government honoured him by making him Chevalier, Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
List of poems
List of poems
• Title — |Year — |First published — |Reprinted/collected • The nest — 2014
Novels
Novels
• In the Name of the Wolf,Blackstaff Press, 1999 • Undertow, Blackstaff Press, 2002
Short stories
Short stories
• The Coffin Master, Blackstaff Press, 2002 • "The Heather Fields and Other Stories", Blackstaff Press, 2007
Collections
* • Road with Cypress and Star, Dedalus, 1988 • The Stylized City: Collected and New Poetry, Dedalus, 1991 • Walking on Water, Dedalus Press, 1994 • Christ, with Urban Fox, Daedalus Press, 1997 • Toccata and Fugue: New and Selected Poems, Carcanet, 2000 • Manhandling the Deity, Carcanet, 2003. • The Instruments of Art, Carcanet, 2005 • A Little Book of Hours, Carcanet, 2008. • Eye of the Hare, Carcanet, 2011. • Snow Falling on Chestnut Hill, New & Selected Poems, Carcanet 2012 • Semibreve, Carcanet, 2015 • Dear Pilgrims, Carcanet, 2018 • Naming of the Bones, Carcanet, 2021 • Goldcrest,2015
Text attribution
Licensing
Text attribution
Part of the biographical narrative on this page reuses licensed material. Its origin, revision and licence are recorded here.
The biographical narrative on this page is based on the Wikipedia article John F. Deane, revision 1293871878 (EN edition), by its contributors. VALÉORINE has edited that text and built its own documentary record around it. The reused material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, and this page's reuse of it is offered under the same licence. Everything else on this page — the chronology, the holdings, the evidence, the plates and the connections — is VALÉORINE's own record. Sources and licences.
Notes from the source article
Cited by Wikipedia
Notes from the source article
These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.Anthology of Irish Writing
- 2.Carcanet Press - John F. Deane
- 3.Finding Aid : John F. Deane papers, 1971-2000 : Irish Literary Collections.
- 4.John F Deane - Life www.ricorso.net
- 5.Earnest memoir intrigues but lacks an occasional indiscreet aside Entertainment, Irish Independent, 5 December 2019.
- 6.John F. Deane
References
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
reference work
Secondary witnessreference work
Secondary witness
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 24 August 2026.
Elsewhere in Books
39,529 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- John Ernest BodeAuthor
- John EugenikosAuthor
- John Evan DaviesAuthor
- John EvelynAuthor
- John F. KennedyAuthor
- John FerriarAuthor
- John FieldAuthor
- John FigueroaAuthor
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own a work by John F. Deane?
A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.