Robert Anthony Welch

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occupation = playwright, poet, author, academic
nationality = Irish
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Robert Anthony Welch (b. 1947), is an Irish author and scholar.

Biography

Robert Welch, BA MA PhD FEA, is Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Ulster which joined the University in 1984 as Professor of English, having previously taught at the University of Leeds, and the University of Ife in Nigeria.

He was born in Cork, County Cork, part of the Province of Munster in the Republic of Ireland, and was educated at University College Cork and later the University of Leeds; he is married to his wife Angela and has four children. A novelist and poet as well as a critic and editor, he published "The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature" in 1996.

Other publications include "Muskerry", "Secret Societies", "The Blue Formica Table" which are poetry collections. His fiction writings include "The Kilcolman Notebook", "Groundwork", "Tearmann" (in Irish) and "The Kings Are Out". Criticism: "Irish Poetry from Moore to Yeats", "A History of Verse Translation from the Irish", "Changing States: Transformations in Modern Irish Writing", and "The Abbey Theatre 1899-1999: Form and Pressure".

His work is published by Oxford University Press, Routledge, Penguin, Blackstaff, Colin Smythe, Dedalus, and Brandon.

Recently made a member of the Royal Irish Academy for his contributions, Robert Welch is a literary historian, poet, and novelist with varied published works in many diverse fields. He spends much time in Donegal and is still writing.

Published works

* "Irish Poetry from Moore to Yeats" (Colin Smythe and Barnes & Noble, Gerrards Cross and New York, 1988),
* "The Way Back: George Moore's The Untilled Field and The Lake" (Wolfhound Press and Barnes and Noble, Dublin and New York, 1988)
* "A History of Verse Translation from the Irish, 1789-1897" (Colin Smythe and Barnes & Noble, Gerrards Cross and New York, 1988)
* "Literature and the Art of Creation: Essays in Honour of A.N. Jeffares" (Colin Smythe and Barnes & Noble, Gerrards Cross and New York, 1988), ed., with Suheil Badi Bushrui, 350pp.
* "General editor, Vols I - XII, Ulster Editions and Monographs" (Colin Smythe and Barnes & Noble, Gerrards Cross and New York, 1988).
* "Muskerry (poems)" (Dedalus Press, 1991), Dublin
* Editor and author of introduction, Irish Writers and Religion" (Colin Smythe and Barnes & Noble, Gerrards Cross and New York, 1991)
* "W.B. Yeats: Irish Folklore, Legend and Myth" (Penguin, 1993), editor, author of introduction and notes
* "Changing States: Transformations in Modern Irish Writing" (Routledge, 1993)
* "Kilcolman Notebook" (novel), (Brandon Press, 1993)
* "The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature" (Clarendon Press, 1996)
* "Irish Myths" (Appletree Press, Belfast, 1996)
* "Patrick Galvin: New and Selected Poems" (Cork University Press, 1996), editor (with Greg Delanty), co-author of introduction and notes
* "Secret Societies (poems)" (Dedalus Press, Dublin and Dufour, New York, 1996)
* "Tearmann (novel, in Irish)" (Coiscéim, Dublin, 1997)
* "Groundwork (novel)", (Blackstaff Press, 1997)
* "The Blue Formica Table (poems)", (Dedalus Press, Dublin and Dufour, New York, 1999)
* "The Abbey Theatre 1899-1999: Form and Pressure" (Oxford University Press, 1998)
* "The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature" (Concise) (ed.), Oxford University Press)
* " The Evergreen Road (poems)", (Lagan Press, 2006)
* " Protestants (drama)", (Lagan Press, 2006)
* "The Oxford History of the Irish Book, Vol III (of 5 volumes)", (General Editor with Brian Walker, 2006)