Maurice Harmon reading poems from his latest collection celebrating his 80th birthday, When Love is not Enough
(published June 2010).
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Maurice Harmon is a patron of the William Carleton summer school. He is a former Professor of Anglo-Irish Literature at University College Dublin. He is a distinguished critic, biographer, editor, literary historian, and poet. Born in Balbriggan, Co. Dublin, he was educated at UCD and Harvard, teaching at Lewis Clarke College in Portland, Oregon, then Notre Dame, followed by a return to the English department at UCD. He has edited No Author Better Served. The Correspondence between Samuel Beckett and Alan Schneider (1998) and has translated the medieval Irish compendium of stories and poems The Colloquy of the Old Men (2001). He has written studies of several Irish writers, including Seán O'Faoláin, Austin Clarke, and Thomas Kinsella and edited the ground-breaking anthology Irish Poetry After Yeats. His Selected Essays (2006) contains articles on William Carleton, Mary Lavin, John Montague, and contemporary Irish poetry. A study of Thomas Kinsella as poet and translator, Thomas Kinsella. Designing for the Exact Needs, was published in March, 2008. His other poetry collections include The Last Regatta (2000), The Doll with Two Backs and other poems (2004) and The Mischievous Boy and other poems (2008).