Poetic Obituaries: Rejecting the charge that Irish publishers

were parochial, in 2007 [Steve] MacDonogh pointed to the fact that his lists included writers from Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and the US.

He was the author of a history of the Dingle peninsula, a book on folk customs and three collections of poetry. He also edited The Rushdie Letters: Freedom to Speak, Freedom to Write. His most recent book Barack Obama: The Road from Moneygall was published earlier this year.

A former president of Clé, the Irish Book Publishers' Association, he was instrumental in developing the Irish presence at the Frankfurt book fair.

from The Irish Times: Defiant publisher and writer who fought censorship

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