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Gibbon, Monk, 1896-1987

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1896 December 15 - 1987 October 29

Biographical Note

Monk Gibbon was born in Dublin in 1896 and educated in Ireland and at Oxford. He was a poet and scholar, whose doctoral work focused on the writer AE (George Russell). Throughout his career as a teacher, Gibbon wrote poetry, travel books, criticism, novels and biography, and became a member of the Irish Academy of Letters and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He died in 1987.

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

John F. Deane papers

 Collection
Abstract

Personal and literary archives of Irish poet and editor John Deane from 1971-2000.

Restrictions on access

Collection is open for research.

Dates: 1927-2000, undated

Boston College collection of Monk Gibbon

 Collection
Abstract

This collection documents the life of Irish author Monk Gibbon through his correspondence and manuscripts held in the papers of two of his peers: his bibliographer Alan Denson and one of his early publishers Alan Steele. Also included are portraits of Gibbon and his family, which may have belonged to Denson.

Restrictions on access

Collection is open for research.

Dates: 1929 - 1990; Majority of material found within 1951 - 1975