/ On a donné à Monk Gibbon (né 1896) le titre de vétéran illustre des lettres irlandaises. His latest volume of autobiography, The Pupil, appeared in 1981. All his prose and poetry is warmed by his affection for nature, and explores with lucid subtlety the labyrinths of human experience, particularly love. ![]() Inglorious Soldier includes a first-hand account of the Easter Rising of 1916 and the shooting of the pacifist Sheehy Skeffington. Yeats, George Moore, AE and Katharine Tynan. ![]() ![]() They present lively and intimate accounts of the famous Irish writers whom he knew personally, such as W.B. Queen's University has now acquired the fascinating successive drafts of his works - over twenty-five volumes of poetry, autobiography, travel and criticism. ![]() Monk Gibbon (b.1896) has been called The Grand Old Man of Irish Letters.
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