Elgy Gillespie
Elgy Gillespie | |
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| Born | 1950 (age 73–74) London, United Kingdom |
| Occupation | journalist, writer |
| Language | English |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Dublin |
| Literary movement | Second-wave feminism |
| Years active | 1971–present |
Elgy F. Gillespie (born 1950) is an English-born Irish journalist and author.
Early life[edit]
Gillespie was born in London in 1950, to a Belfast father and an Anglo-German mother. She went to Dublin aged 17, reading English at Trinity College, Dublin.[1][2]
Career[edit]
Gillespie wrote for The Irish Times between 1971 and 1986, for columns including "Women First".[3][4][5]
Personal life[edit]
Gillespie left Ireland in 1986, and has lived in the U.S. since, mostly in San Francisco.[2]
In 2018, she received treatment for an oligodendroglioma.[6]
Bibliography[edit]
Irish topics[edit]
- The Flat-Dweller's Companion (1972)
- The Liberties of Dublin (1973; editor)[7][8]
- The Country Life Picture Book of Ireland (1982)
- Portraits of the Irish (1986, with Liam Blake)
- Changing The Times: Irish Women Journalists 1969-1981 (2003; editor)
- Vintage Nell: The McCafferty Reader (2005; editor)
- Irish Theater Is Alive and Flourishing (2013)
Food writing[edit]
- You Say Potato! (2001)[9]
- The Rough Guide to San Francisco Restaurants (2003)
References[edit]
- ^ Deane, Seamus; Bourke, Angela; Carpenter, Andrew; Williams, Jonathan (6 August 2002). The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing. NYU Press. ISBN 9780814799079 – via Google Books.
- ^ a b "Women of the times". The Irish Times.
- ^ Brown, Terence (12 March 2015). The Irish Times: 150 Years of Influence. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781472919076 – via Google Books.
- ^ Gillespie, Elgy (6 August 2003). Changing the Times: Irish Women Journalists 1969-1981. Lilliput Press. ISBN 9781843510185 – via Google Books.
- ^ Mullally, Una. "A guide to Dublin's old 'junk' markets". The Irish Times.
- ^ Gillespie, Elgy. "My big bad brain tumour – An Irishwoman's Diary on surviving a craniotomy". The Irish Times.
- ^ "The O'Brien Press | Forty Years, Forty Books". The O'Brien Press. Retrieved 4 August 2021.
- ^ Kearns, Kevin C. (3 October 2014). The Legendary 'Lugs Branigan' – Ireland's Most Famed Garda: How One Man became Dublin's Tough Justice Legend. Gill & Macmillan Ltd. ISBN 9780717159376 – via Google Books.
- ^ "On-message potatoes". The Irish Times.
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