Life
[T. E. O’Grady] b. on Prince Edward Island, Canada; taught at University of Massachusetts Boston, where he served as Director of Irish Studies, 1984-2019; has published short fiction in American journals (Harvard Review, et al.); issued I Could Read the Sky (London: Harvill 1997, 175pp.), with a pref. by John Berger and photos by Steve Pyke, a novel constructed from memories of men who left the West of Ireland for work in London and suffered hardship and homesickness there;
issued What Really Matters (McGill-Queen’s UP 2000), a first collection of poetry; also published Delivering the News (McGill-Queen's UP 2019); Motherland (Chatto & Windus 1989), a novel in which Synott discovers his roots through a 12th-century book; with Timothy Griffith, Curious Journey; Ireland’s Unfinished Revolution: An Oral History (Mercier Press 1998, 191pp.), containing interviews with nine veterans and avowed republicans from the era of the literary revival and the war of independence; appt. Scholar-in-Residence at Saint Mary’s College (N. Indiana); issued Coming Ashore: New and Selected Poems (Arrowsmith 2025, 137pp.).
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