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Maurice Scully Author

Maurice Scully was born in Dublin in 1952 and spent his childhood between Clare, the Ring Gaeltacht and Dublin. He was educated at Trinity College Dublin. In a writing career that began in the early 1970s he has published over a dozen volumes of poetry. After some years travelling and working abroad in the 1980s and some time after that living in the west of Ireland he returned to settle in Dublin with his wife and 4 children, in the mid-90s, where he taught for over a decade at Dublin City University. In 2009 he was elected to Aosdana.