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[[File:Irish poet and educator, Sean Lucy, circa 1975.jpg|thumb|upright|Sean Lucy, circa 1975]]
'''Sean Lucy''' (March 12, 1931 – July 25, 2001) was an Irish poet and educator.

==Biography==
Lucy was born in [[Bombay]], [[British India]] in 1931.<ref name="irishtimes">{{cite web |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/left-ucc-to-pursue-writing-career-1.323175 |title=Left UCC to pursue writing career |work=[[The Irish Times]] |date=August 18, 2001 |accessdate=July 9, 2018}}</ref> His father was an Irish officer in the [[British army]], who resigned his commission in 1935 to resettle the family in [[Ireland]]. Lucy was enrolled at [[Glenstal Abbey School]], and later attended [[University College Cork]], where he earned his bachelor's and master's degrees.<ref name="irishtimes"/>

In 1954, he moved to England where he served two years as an education officer in the British army. He subsequently taught for four years at [[Prior Park College]] in Bath as a Senior English Master. During this time, he married Patricia Kennedy, his first wife, with whom he had five children.

Lucy returned to Ireland in 1960 and joined the English faculty at [[University College Cork]] (UCC) in 1962,<ref>{{cite book |title=Contemporary Irish Poetry: An Anthology |url=https://archive.org/details/contemporaryiris00brad |url-access=registration |editor-first=Anthony |editor-last=Bradley |publisher=University of California Press |year=1980 |isbn=9780520033894 |page=[https://archive.org/details/contemporaryiris00brad/page/225 225]}}</ref> where he eventually became professor and department chair. The composer [[Sean O Riada]] who lectured in music at the university from 1963 to 1971, was a friend. During this time, he published his first major critical work, ''TS Eliot and The Idea of Tradition'' (1960).<ref name="irishtimes"/> He continued to write and edit critical works in English and Irish including Love Poems of the Irish (1967), as well as his own creative works in poetry. A collection, ''Unfinished Sequence and Other Poems'' was published in 1979. Also in 1979, he co-founded the University College Cork, Summer School for American students. During the 1980–81 academic year, he served as visiting professor in the English department at [[Loyola University Chicago]].<ref name="chicagosuntimes">{{cite web |url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-4611853.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180710010308/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-4611853.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 10, 2018 |title=Sean Lucy, 70, Irish scholar, poet, professor |work=[[Chicago Sun-Times]] |date=July 27, 2001 |first=Julie |last=Patel |accessdate=July 9, 2018 |via=[[HighBeam]]}}</ref>

Following his early retirement from UCC in 1986,<ref name="irishtimes"/> Lucy moved to Chicago and married his second wife, fellow poet, Susan Leah Lederman. During these years, he taught Irish Literature at Loyola University, the [[Newberry Library]] and the [[Irish American Heritage Center]]. He died of a heart attack in 2001 following a traffic accident.<ref name="chicagosuntimes"/>

Lucy was involved in bringing the poet [[John Montague (poet)|John Montague]] to the English Department at UCC,<ref>{{Cite web|publisher=Irish Examiner|website=irishexaminer.com| title=Painful childhood didn't dim the twinkle in John Montague's eyes |last = Frazier | first = Adrian | url=https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-20434775.html|url-status=live|archive-date=12 December 2016|access-date=20 June 2021 | quote = Upon the invitation of Professor Sean Lucy in 1972, John Montague had begun to teach at UCC }}</ref> and the poets and writers [[Greg Delanty]], [[William Wall (writer)|William Wall]], [[Theo Dorgan]], [[Seán Dunne (poet)|Sean Dunne]], [[Maurice Riordan]], [[Gerry Murphy (poet)|Gerry Murphy]] and [[Thomas McCarthy (poet)|Thomas McCarthy]] were students of Montague and Lucy at UCC in the 1970s.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/arid-30996571.html| publisher = Irish Examiner | website = irishexaminer.com | title = New book looks at Cork’s golden generation of poets | last = Sheridan| first = Colette | date = 20 April 2020 | accessdate = 20 June 2021 | quote = Theo Dorgan, Gerry Murphy, Greg Delanty, Maurice Riordan the late Gregory O'Donoghue [..] All were students of John Montague and Sean {{sic|Lucey}} at the university [UCC] }}</ref>

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