Patrick Deeley

Patrick Deeley is an award-winning poet, memoirist and children’s writer from Loughrea, County Galway.  He worked formerly as a primary school teacher, and then as administrative principal of a school in Dublin.

His eight collections with Dedalus Press are: Keepsake (2024), The End of the World (2019), Groundswell: New and Selected Poems (2013), The Bones of Creation (2008), Decoding Samara (2000), Turane: The Hidden Village (1995), Names For Love (1990) and Intimate Strangers (1986).  

His poems have been translated to French, Italian, Spanish, Ukrainian and other languages, as well as appearing in many prestigious journals worldwide, and in numerous anthologies including Staying Human, edited by Neil Astley (Bloodaxe Books), Poems for when you can’t find the Words, edited by Dr. Mary Shine Thompson (Poetry Ireland), and Windharp: Poems of Ireland since 1916 (Arlen House).  

He received the 2019 Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Award for his collection The End of the World, which was also shortlisted for the 2020 National Poetry Award.   He is the recipient of the Dermot Healy International Poetry Prize, the WOW2 Prize, and the 2000/2001 Eilís Dillon and Bisto Awards.  His poem ‘Woodman’ was chosen as one of ‘Ireland’s Favourite Poems’ following an Irish Times survey in 1999, and his best-selling, critically acclaimed memoir, The Hurley Maker’s Son (Doubleday Ireland, 2016) was shortlisted for The Irish Non-Fiction Book Award.