Anthony Cronin (born 1925 in County Wexford) is an Irish poet. He received the Marten Toonder Award (1983) for his contribution to Irish literature. Year 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Statistics Province: Leinster County Town: Wexford Code: WX Area: 2,352 km² Population (2006) 131,615 Website: www. ... A 1907 engraving of William Butler Yeats, one of Irelands best-known poets. ...
He is a founding member of Aosdána, and was elected Saoi of Aosdána in 2003. He lives in Dublin. Aosdána (IPA: ; from aos dána, Irish people of the arts) is an association of people in Ireland who have achieved distinction in the arts. ...
Bibliography
His collections of poems include:
Poems (London, Cresset, 1958);
Collected Poems, 1950-73 (Dublin, New Writers Press, 1973);
Reductionist Poem (Dublin, Raven Arts Press, 1980);
41 Sonnet Poems (Raven Arts Press, 1982);
RMS Titanic (Raven Arts Press, 1981);
New and Selected Poems (Raven Arts Press/Manchester, Carcanet, 1982);
The End of the Modern World (1989);
Relationships (Dublin, New Island Press, 1992); and
Minotaur (New Island Books, 1999).
Literary Criticism:
No Laughing Matter: The Life and Times of Flann O'Brien. New Island Books, 2003. ISBN 1-904301-37-1
Cronin writes with remarkable subtlety of the frustrations and pathologies of this generation: the excess of drink, the shortage of sex, the insecurity and begrudgery, the painful limitations of cultural life in mid-century Ireland, and the bittersweet pull of exile.
The generation chronicled by Cronin was one of wasted promise.
That waste is rIn this account of life in post-war literary Dublin, AnthonyCronin writes of the frustrations and pathologies of this generation: the excess of drink; the shortage of sex; the insecurity and begrudgery; the limitations of cultural life in mid-century Ireland, and the bittersweet pull of exile.
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