Gerald Dawe
He also started to write poems and after a brief period living in London, he returned to the North and attended the College of Business Studies before proceeding to the fledgling New University of Ulster (1971-1974) where his professor was the literary critic and novelist, Walter Allen.He then proceeded to the University of Galway where he undertook graduate research on the 19th-century Tyrone novelist and short story writer, William Carleton.He was appointed a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin in 2004, a Professor in English and the inaugural director of the Oscar Wilde Centre for Irish Writing (1997-2015).[7] His first full collection, Sheltering Places, was published in 1978,[8] receiving two years later, a Bursary for Poetry from the Arts Council of Ireland.The collection was concerned with the cultural and social roots of his background in Belfast and of the different Irish and emigre histories of his own family, highlighted by his new life in the west of Ireland.