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He survived electroshock treatments and the threat of lobotomy to become one of Ireland’s most popular poets. The Irish Times called him a “literary phenomenon.” By Michael S. Rosenwald See more of ...

Paul Durcan, a poet whose native Ireland was his canvas for work that reflected sublime pleasures, historical memory and sly irreverence, as well as confronting his lingering torment after his father ...