Dennis Devlin
Denis Devlin was born on April 15, 1908, in Greenock, Scotland, of Irish parents.
He entered the Irish diplomatic service in 1935 and served in Europe and the United States, before being appointed minister plenipotentiary to Italy in 1950; he was accredited also to Turkey 1951, and was ambassador to Italy 1958.
Admired by Beckett, his books are First Poems (1930); Intercessions (1937); Lough Derg and Other Poems (New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1946); and his posthumous Selected Poems (New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1963). The Complete Poems of Dennis Devlin, edited with an introduction by Brian Coffey, was published in the University Review, Dublin, Volume III, number 5 (no date given), and by The Dolmen Press, Dublin, 1964.
His Collected Poems, edited by J.C.C. Mays, is published by The Dedalus Press, Dublin, in 1999.
He also published Memoirs of a Turcoman Diplomat (Rome, 1959).
The Denis Devlin Memorial Award for Poetry is administered by the Irish Arts Council.
He died in Dublin in 1959.
