Brian Coffey, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Irish poet and publisher
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Place of Birth: Dún Laoghaire, Leinster, Ireland
About Brian Coffey
- Brian Coffey (8 June 1905 – 14 April 1995) was an Irish poet and publisher.
- His work was informed by his Catholicism, his background in science and philosophy, and his connection to surrealism.
- He was close to an intellectual European Catholic tradition and mainstream Irish Catholic culture.
- Two of his long poems, Advent (1975) and Death of Hektor (1979), were widely considered to be important works in the canon of Irish poetic modernism.
- He also ran Advent, a small press, during the 1960s and 1970s.
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