Gibbon, Monk, 1896-1987
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
Personal and literary archives of Irish poet and editor John Deane from 1971-2000.
Collection is open for research.
Boston College collection of Monk Gibbon
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.
Collection is open for research.