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Professor Patrick Crotty BA, PhD

Professor of Irish and Scottish Literature

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Office: HMF5 Humanity Manse
Tel: +44 (0)1224 272196
Email: p.j.crotty@abdn.ac.uk
Office Hours: Thursday 11am - 1pm

Patrick Crotty (BA, PhD)

Patrick Crotty (BA, PhD) is Professor of Irish and Scottish Literature and Associate Director of the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies. He is a graduate of the National University of Ireland (Cork) and of Stirling, where he did his PhD on the poetry of Hugh MacDairmid. Patrick was a Senior Lecturer in English and Welsh Studies at Trinity College Carmarthen for many years and he has also been head of English at St Patrick's College, Dublin City University and professor and head of subject at the University of Ulster. He has been at Aberdeen since 2005. 


Current Research Interests:

Patrick's main research interests are twentieth-century poetry in Ireland and Scotland but he has also published on earlier Irish and Scottish poetry in English, Irish and Scots, and on contemporary fiction. His verse translations from the Irish have appeared in many books and journals. Recent publications include essays on R.S. Thomas, John McGahern, Bob Dylan and the poetry of the Irish Literary Revival. He is currently completing work on The New Penguin Book of Irish Verse and (with Alan Riach) on the three-volume, annotated Complete Collected Poems of Hugh MacDiarmid. He is Director of the Yeats International Summer School, 2006-2008. Professor Crotty welcomes enquiries from potential research students in modern Irish and Scottish poetry and in 20th Century Irish Literature more generally.


Recent publications include:

‘The Irish Renaissance, 1890-1940: poetry in English’, in Margaret Kelleher and Philip O’Leary, eds., The Cambridge History of Irish Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), 2 vols., Volume Two, pp. 50-112.

‘All Toppers: Children in the Fiction of John McGahern’, in Elmer-Kennedy Andrews, ed., Irish Fiction Since 1960. (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 2005), pp. 277-300. A shorter version of this essay appeared in The Irish University Review, Vol. 35, No. 1, Spring 2005, pp. 42-57.

‘Montague Bound: A Note on Collected Poems ’, in Thomas Dillon Redshaw, ed., Well Dreams: Essays on John Montague (Omaha, Nebraska: Creighton University Press, 2004), pp. 376-92.

‘Beyond the Fisheries’. Review of W.S. Graham, New Collected Poems (London: Faber and Faber, 2004), in the Times Literary Supplement, 4 June 2004, pp. 7-9.

(5) ‘Extraordinary Man of the Bald Welsh Hills: The Iago Prytherch Poems’, in Damian Walford Davies, ed., Echoes to the Amen: Essays After R.S.Thomas. (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2003), pp. 13-43.

‘Shameless Bards and Mad, Abandoned Critics’, in Edna Longley, Eamonn Hughes and Des O’Rawe, eds., Ireland ( Ulster ) Scotland: Concepts, Contexts, Comparisons (Belfast: Cló Ollscoil na Banríona, 2003), pp. 77-85.

‘Bob Dylan’s Last Words’, in Neil Corcoran, ed., Do You, Mr Jones: Bob Dylan among the Poets and Professors (London: Chatto and Windus, 2002), 307-333. Reprinted: Pimlico, 2003.

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