| LC control no. | n 86118646 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PR6053.A714 |
| Personal name heading | Carson, Ciaran, 1948-2019 |
| Variant(s) | Carson, Ciaran, 1948- |
| See also | Employer: Queen's University of Belfast Chief executive of: Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry Employer: Arts Council of Northern Ireland Graduate of: Queen's University of Belfast |
| Associated country | Great Britain Northern Ireland |
| Located | Belfast (Northern Ireland) |
| Address | c.carson@qub.ac.uk |
| Birth date | 1948-10-09 |
| Death date | 2019-10-06 |
| Place of birth | Belfast (Northern Ireland) |
| Place of death | Belfast (Northern Ireland) |
| Field of activity | Poetry Fiction Prose literature Education, Higher Translating and interpreting Poetry of places Folk music Northern Ireland--Poetry Belfast (Northern Ireland)--Poetry |
| Affiliation | Aosdána (Organization) Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) Arts Council of Northern Ireland |
| Profession or occupation | Poets Novelists Authors College teachers Literature teachers Translators Musicians Flute players |
| Found in | His Irish traditional music, 1986: t.p. (Ciarán Carson) From elsewhere, 2014: title page (Ciaran Carson) rear dust jacket flap (born in Belfast where he is professor of poetry and director of the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen's University; poet; member of Aosdána and a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature) LC data base, 6/4/87 (hdg.: Carson, Ciarán, 1948- ) 25, 1995 : p. 11 (b. 1948, Belfast; Literature and Traditional Arts Officer in the Arts Council of Northern Ireland) Information from author, Feb. 2, 1998 (author prefers his name appear without an accent) Contemporary authors online, April 23, 2015 (Ciaran Carson; poet; born October 9, 1948 in Belfast; e-mail: c.carson@qub.ac.uk) Irish writers online, April 23, 2015 (Ciaran Carson; lives in Belfast) Queen's University Belfast, The Seamus Centre for Poetry website, April 23, 2015: staff (Professor Ciaran Carson, director; author of nine collections of poems; has written prose works and novels) New York times, 11 October 2019, viewed online 14 October 2019: Genzlinger, Neil. Ciaran Carson, Versatile Belfast Poet, Is Dead at 70 (Ciaran Carson; Ciaran Gerard Carson; he; born on Oct. 9, 1948, in Belfast; died in Belfast October 6 [2019]; poetry and prose captured the pungency, tensions and heritage of Northern Ireland, especially Belfast; perhaps best known as a poet; also wide variety of prose works; degree in English in 1971 at Queen's University, Belfast; 1975-1998, job with Arts Council of Northern Ireland, dealing first with traditional music and then literature; also a translator, working in several languages; a flutist, married and performed with Deirdre Shannon, a fiddle player) |
| Associated language | eng |
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