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People from Newry Co. Down
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Brian Cosgrove

Brian Cosgrove was born in Newry, Co. Down on 8 October 1941. He subsequently studied English at Queen's University, Belfast, where he obtained a First Class Honours in English in 1962. He then attended Balliol College, Oxford University, where he was awarded a B.Litt. in 1966. After twenty-five years' lecturing in University College, Dublin (1967-92), he was appointed Professor of English and Head of Department at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth (1992 -2006). He is the author of Wordsworth and the Poetry of Self-Sufficiency (1982), James Joyce's Negations (2007), and a memoir about growing up in Newry, The Yew Tree at the Head of the Strand (2002). He has also written numerous articles on Shakespeare, Thomas Gray, Wordsworth, Herman Melville, Yeats, Joyce, Brian Moore, and Seamus Heaney. In 1995 he was awarded a D.Litt. by the National University of Ireland on the basis of works published. He retired as Professor Emeritus in 2006.