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Thomas MacGreevy

1893–1967·Wrote in English

Mid-century · Modernists, mid-century and the long shadow of Yeats (1930s–1960s) · Co. Kerry · English

Kerry-born; friend of Joyce, Beckett, Eliot and Wallace Stevens; later Director of the National Gallery of Ireland. His single slim Poems (1934) opened the door for Irish modernism — see the experimental line in.

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