Richard Weber (poet)

Richard Weber was an Irish poet, born 2 September 1932 in Dublin and dying 15 April 2020.

Early life
He was educated at Synge Street CBS and at the National College of Art in Dublin.

Career
He was librarian in the National College of Art and Design in Dublin and occasionally Lecturer in English there. He further held a variety of jobs, including that of lamplighter in London (1959), bookseller's assistant (London 1959, Dublin 1961), assistant editor The Bookseller, London (1961), librarian at the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin (1961 - 1965).

He was poet-in-residence at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1967; from 1967 to 1970 he was a visiting lecturer at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts. Weber has been advisory editor for Icarus, Journal of Trinity College Dublin and poetry editor for Poetry Ireland Review. He has contributed to many Irish, English, and American journals. His major collections are Lady & Gentleman and  Stephen's Green Revisited.

Personal life
Richard Weber was married, with a daughter, a son, and three grandchildren.

Reviews

 * Austin Clarke: Verse Ancient and Modern. Review of Lady and Gentleman, by Richard Weber, and The Penguin Book of Religious Verse, ed. R. S. Thomas. The Irish Press, 11 May 1963, p. 6
 * Benedict Kiely: A Chapter of Irish Writing. The New York Times, September 8, 1968.
 * Library Journal, New Providence, New Jersey: Bowker, vol. 94, 1969.
 * Irish Poetry of Faith and Doubt:The Cold Heaven, ed. John F. Deane, Wolfhound Press, 1990.
 * Poetry in Contemporary Irish Literature, edited by Michael Kenneally. Rowman & Littlefield, 1995. 460 p. (Studies in Contemporary Irish Literature, 2) ISBN 978-0-86140-310-3