David Marcus is an Irish Jewish editor who has been a lifelong advocate and editor of Irish fiction. Grave of an unknown Jewish person in Castletroy, Limerick. ...

Born in County Cork in 1924, Marcus has edited numerous anthologies of Irish fiction and poetry, including the Phoenix Irish Short Stories collections. Statistics Province: Munster County Town: Cork Code: C (CK proposed) Area: 7,457 km² Population (2006) 480,909 (including City of Cork); 361,766 (without Cork City) Website: www. ... An anthology, literally a garland or collection of flowers, is a collection of literary works, originally of poems. ...

Other notable projects include the page New Irish Writing for the Irish Press, which provided a forum for aspiring Irish authors, publishing most of the most important names in Irish fiction and poetry, many for the first time, and in 1986 the novel A Land Not Theirs, a fictionalized account of the experiences of the Cork Jewish community during the Irish War of Independence. The Irish Press was an Irish newspaper published by Irish Press plc between 1931 and 1995. ... Combatants Irish Republic United Kingdom Commanders Michael Collins Richard Mulcahy Cathal Brugha Important local IRA leaders Henry Hugh Tudor Strength Irish Republican Army c. ...

In 2001 Marcus published Oughtobiography - Leaves from the diary of a hyphenated Jew, an autobiographical review of his life as an Irish-Jewish person and as a figure in the field of Irish literature.

On June 3, 2005 he was awarded an honorary Degree of Doctor of Literature by the National University of Ireland, University College, Cork^[1] is the 154th day of the year (155th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... University College Cork - National University of Ireland, Cork - or more commonly University College Cork (UCC) - is a constituent university of the National University of Ireland located in Cork City. ...

Marcus currently lives in Dublin. For other uses, see Dublin (disambiguation). ...

Bibliography

• Marcus, David (Editor) (1998). Irish Short Stories. Weidenfeld & Nicolson history. ISBN 1-86159-130-6. 

Phoenix Irish Short Stories, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2003 ISBN 0753817179

References

1. ^ [1]conferring of the Degree of Doctor of Literature honoris causa

• Profile of Marcus at "Irish Writers Online"