Seamus Deane

Novelist, Author

1940 –

96

Who is Seamus Deane?

Seamus Deane is an Irish poet, novelist, and critic.

Born in Derry, Northern Ireland, Deane was brought up as part of a Catholic nationalist family. He attended St. Columb's College in Derry, where he befriended fellow-student Seamus Heaney, Queen's University Belfast and Pembroke College, Cambridge University. He is a member of the Royal Irish Academy and a founding director of the Field Day Theatre Company.

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Born
Feb 9, 1940
Derry
Religion
  • Catholicism
Nationality
  • Northern Ireland
Profession
Education
  • Queen's University of Belfast
  • Pembroke College, Cambridge
  • St. Columb's College
Employment
  • University of Notre Dame
Lived in
  • Derry
  • United States of America
  • Ireland

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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