Ciaran Carson (right) shares a sofa, has he laughs with friend Michael Longley, CBE (born 27 July 1939) is a poet from Belfast
Ciaran Carson (right) shares a sofa, has he laughs with friend Michael Longley, CBE (born 27 July 1939) is a poet from Belfast in Northern Ireland. Carson was born in Belfast into an Irish-speaking family. He attended St Marys CBGS Belfast before proceeding to Queen's University, Belfast (QUB) to read for a degree in English. After graduation, he worked for over twenty years as the Traditional Arts Officer of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. In 1998 he was appointed a Professor of English at QUB where he established, and is the current Director of, the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry. He resides in Belfast. Born at Belfast, Longley was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution, and subsequently read Classics at Trinity College, Dublin, where he edited Icarus. He was Professor of Poetry for Ireland from 2007 to 2010, a cross-border academic post set up in 1998, previously held by John Montague, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and Paul Durcan. He was succeeded in 2010 by Harry Clifton. North American editions of Longley's work are published by Wake Forest University Press. His wife, Edna Longley, is a critic on modern Irish and British poetry. They have three children. An atheist, he describes himself as a "sentimental" disbeliever.
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