Mr. Longley studied classics at Trinity College Dublin, but didn’t graduate. (He received an honorary degree in 1999.) “Perhaps I had the vaguest notion of sleepwalking into teaching or the ...

After studying classics at Trinity College, Dublin, Michael moved back north with his wife, the literary critic Edna Longley, in 1965, shortly before the period of the Troubles began. By this time ...

he was profoundly influenced by his time as a student at Trinity College Dublin, where he fell in love with poetry and his fellow student and future wife, the critic Edna Longley, and at his ...

Mr Longley went to school at Royal Belfast Academical Institution and later attended Trinity College Dublin in the 1950s. During his college years he became interested in poetry and he also met ...

Longley was born in July 1939 and lived in the city until his death, which was announced on Thursday. He went to school at Royal Belfast Academical Institution before studying at Trinity College ...

It was only one among any number of honours for his work: the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Whitbread Prize, the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry, the Feltrinelli International Prize for Poetry and, not the ...

Tonight will remain dry with plenty of clear spells for a time. In the early hours, a few patches of cloud will build in, but lengthy clear intervals will persist throughout. Chilly and breezy ...

The poet Derek Mahon was in the year below him. They both went on to Trinity College Dublin, where Longley was a classical scholar. He left with what he later called a mediocre degree and ...

The death of the poet Michael Longley on Jan. 22, 2025, at the age of 85 did not occasion the same volume of obituaries and encomiums as that of his fellow Belfast poet Seamus Heaney in 2013 (at ...

Born in 1939, he attended Royal Belfast Academical Institution (RBAI) before studying at Trinity College Dublin where he became immersed in poetry. Interview: Michael Longley at 85 - ‘You mustn ...