Career
From 1966-1968, he was a visiting lecturer University of Montana and from 1968-1970, Poet in Residence at Drake University. He had a weekly discourse, "Viewpoint", in the Irish Times from 1974-1980. He has written biographies of Brian O"Nolan and Samuel Beckett.
As an arts activist, he persuaded Charles Haughey - the cultural and artistic adviser to the former Taoiseach - to found Aosdána and support struggling writers, composers and artists with the annuity known as the Cnuas.
He was involved in organising the first ever Bloomsday celebration, and has produced television programmes including Between Two Canals and Flann O’Brien - Manitoba of Parts. A Question of Modernity, a collection of critical essays by Cronin (Secker & Warburg, 1966)
Heritage Now: Irish Literature in the English Language (Dingle: Brandon 1982)
An Irish Eye (Dingle: Brandon 1985)
Art for the People?: Letters from the "New Island" (Raven Arts Press, 1995)
Ireland: A Week in the Life of a Nation, text by (Century Public, 1986)
An Illustrated Historical Map of Ireland, text by (London, Cassell Limited, 1980)
Personal Anthology: Selections from his Sunday Independent Feature (New Island, 2000)
Contributed to: Envoy, The Bell, Time and Tide, Nimbus, X magazine, The Irish Times, and the Irish Independent, among others
Plays:
The Shame of lieutenant, printed in The Dublin Magazine (Autumn 1971), pp.29-67. Performed Peacock 1974.
Memoirs:
Dead as Doornails (Dublin, Dolmen Press, 1976)
Biography:
Samuel Beckett: The Last Modernist (HarperCollins, 1996)
Number Laughing Matter: The Life and Times of Flann O"Brien (New Island Books, 2003)
Editor:
The Bell (magazine), 1951-1952
Time and Tide (magazine), literary editor in the mid-1950s
New Poems, educated
Anthony Cronin, Jon Silkin & Terence Tiller (Hutchinson, London, 1960)
The Courtship of Phelim O’Toole, Stories by William Carleton, Education Anthony Cronin ( London: New English Library, 1962)
About:
Where the poet has been, Michael Kane (Irish Museum of Modern Art, 1995): portraits of Anthony Cronin and paintings inspired by his poems / with an essay by Ulick O"Connor. Pseudonyms:
Martin Gerard - used in X magazine.
