Rory Brennan was born in Westport, Co Mayo in 1945.
His collections are The Sea on Fire (Dublin, Dolmen, 1978); The Walking Wounded (Dublin, The Dedalus Press, 1985); and The Old in Raphallo (Dedalus, 1996).
He won the Patrick Kavanagh Award for The Sea on Fire in 1978.
A former director of Poetry Ireland, he lives in Dublin.
Poets in Profile: Rory Brennan. By Glenda Cimino
Rory Brennan at The National Library of Ireland