Irish poets now live off the island.Some, such as Eamon Grennan and Bernard O'Donoghue, have lived outside Ireland for more than 40 years. [Sara] Berkeley, Paul Muldoon, Justin Quinn, Colette Bryce and Greg Delanty have been away for an average of 20 years each. Since 1996 Eavan Boland has been based for much of the year in California, at Stanford. David Wheatley, Conor O'Callaghan, Vona Groarke and John McAuliffe have all left within the past decade. And there are others. Most left to take up teaching posts, a lot of them in creative writing.
For seven years Conor O'Callaghan has lived away.
from The Irish Times: 'What daffodils were to Wordsworth, drains and backstreet pubs are to me'
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