Background
Boran, Pat Gerard was born on September 4, 1963 in Portlaoise, Ireland. Son of Nicholas Joseph and Nancy Elizabeth (DeLany) Boran.
(Pat Boran's account is a canter through Dublin in all the...)
Pat Boran's account is a canter through Dublin in all the ages of prehistory and history: as Viking settlement, medieval town and capital of colonized Ireland. Many of the events to which the city was host were tragic - tragic too was the poverty and disease that was rife until well into the twentieth century. But Dublin had its eras of glory - architectural, literary and political - and the author charts these too, with great affection.
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Boran, Pat Gerard was born on September 4, 1963 in Portlaoise, Ireland. Son of Nicholas Joseph and Nancy Elizabeth (DeLany) Boran.
Certified, C.B.S., Portlaoise, 1981.
Writer-in-residence Dublin Public Libraries, 1992. Editor Poetry Ireland, 1993-1994. Writer in residence Dublin Corporation, since 1997.
Writer-in-residence County Fermanagh, 1993. Director creative writing program, Irish Writers Center, Dublin, since 1994.
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