Dennis O'Driscoll, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Irish poet, critic
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Place of Birth: Thurles, Munster, Ireland
About Dennis O'Driscoll
- Dennis O'Driscoll (1 January 1954 – 24 December 2012) was an Irish poet, essayist, critic and editor.
- Regarded as one of the best European poets of his time, Eileen Battersby considered him "the lyric equivalent of William Trevor" and a better poet "by far" than Raymond Carver.
- Gerard Smyth regarded him as "one of poetry's true champions and certainly its most prodigious archivist".
- His book on Seamus Heaney is regarded as the definitive biography of the Nobel laureate.
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