Sydney Bernard Smith
Sydney Bernard Smith was a Scots-Irish poet, dramatist, actor and novelist.
Biography
He was born in Glasgow, his father was from Forfar, Angus and his mother from County Clare. He was brought up in Portstewart, County Londonderry in Northern Ireland.He was educated at Clongowes Wood College, Queen's College, Oxford and the University of Iowa International Writer's programme. He later taught at Clongowes Wood College. He also worked as a teacher at Sandymount High School in Dublin, the University of Iowa and Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York. He also taught in Germany and Spain.
Smith was married to Cynthia and they had three sons and a daughter. At the time of his death, he lived in Dundalk, County Louth in Ireland.
Awards
- 1982 elected a member of Aosdana
Publications
Poetry
- Girl With Violin
- Priorities
- Sensualities
- Scurrilities
- New and Selected Poems.
Plays
- Sherca
- Don Bosco, Grainne and the Dole
- The Impertinence of being Frank
- The Illaunapsppie Triangle
- Houseparty
- Swim Away Babies
- On Course for Brazil
- How to Roast a Strasbourg Goose
- Up for Bloomsday
- The 2nd Grand Confabulation of Drum Ceat
- Reason not the Need
- The Shaming of the True.
Novels
- Flannery
- The Book of Shannow