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John Montague
John Montague was born in Brooklyn, New York, on February 28, 1929, to James Montague, an Ulster Catholic from County Tyrone. James immigrated to the United States in 1925, where his brother, John, was already residing. Montague’s paternal grandfather, also named John, had been appointed a justice of the peace by Queen Victoria. Montague’s mother Mary Montague (née Carney), sometimes called Molly, immigrated to the U.S. three years after her husband with her three sons in tow. Montague lived in New York City during the Great Depression. His uncle ran a speakeasy in which Montague’s father was also employed. In 1933, Montague and his two brothers, Seamus and Turlough, were sent back to Ireland when their mother fell ill. Montague’s brothers went to live at their maternal grandmother’s home. John was sent to his paternal family’s home in the hamlet of Garvaghey, County Tyrone, where he lived with two aunts. He worked on the family farm while also attending the Garvaghey School. He then attended primary school in nearby Glencull, where he received a more rigorous ed
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John Montague (poet)
Irish poet (1929–2016)
John Montague | |
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| Born | (1929-02-28)28 February 1929 Brooklyn, New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Died | 10 December 2016(2016-12-10) (aged 87) Nice, France |
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| Literary movement | Modernism |
| Spouse | Elizabeth Wassell (m. 1958; d. 2016) |
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John Montague (28 February 1929 − 10 December 2016) was an Irish poet. Born in the United States, he was raised in Ulster in the north of Ireland. He published a number of volumes of poetry, two collections of short stories and two volumes of memoir. He was one of the best-known Irish contemporary poets. In 1998 he became the first occupant of the Ireland Chair of Poetry[1] (essentially Ireland's poet laureate). In 2010, he was made a Chevalier de la Legion d'honneur, France's highest civil award.[2]
Early life
John Montague was born in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, on 28 February 1929. His father, James Montague, an Ulster Catholic, from County Tyrone, had gone to America in 1925 to join his brother John. Both were sons of Joh
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John Montague
John Montague (b.1929, New York), the author of many books of poetry, stories, memoirs and essays, has been called “the greatest Irish poet of his generation” by Derek Mahon. Born to Irish parents in America, he returned to Ireland at the age of four to be raised by aunts, and was educated at a school where the folksong and Irish poetry expert Sean O’Boyle was an influential teacher. Montague has since travelled the world as poet, teacher and journalist, keeping always a literary and emotional anchor in Ireland.
It is no surprise, then, that Ireland is a recurrent theme in his work. In some poems – ‘Like Dolmens Round my Childhood, the Old People’, ‘The Trout’ or ‘The Water Carrier’, for example – we hear of remembered childhood experience; others deal with the history and politics of the country, from the effect of enforced language change in the nineteenth century in ‘A Grafted Tongue’ to the recent violence that informs ‘A Response to Omagh’.
Other themes that animate the
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