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Article: In memoriam Robert Greacen.(In memoriam)
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- Irish Literary Supplement
- Article date:
- September 22, 2008
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If YOU ARE A READER OF THE Irish Times, Books Ireland, or a number of other papers and journals, you will know that Robert Greacen, like W.H. Auden's Yeats, is now his poetry and prose. Born 24 October 1920 in Derry, Robert Henry Greacen died 13 April 2008 in Dublin's St. Vincent's Hospital. The official cause was cancer, but his health had been bad for several years and he was 87. After receiving his education at Methodist College, Belfast, and a diploma in Social Studies from Trinity College Dublin, he supported himself and family as a teacher of English as a Foreign Language (i.e., English As A Second Language) for the United Nations Committee in London for some forty ...