Sydney Bernard Smith
Sydney Bernard Smith (4 August 1936 – 11 October 2008)[1] was a Scots-Irish poet, dramatist, actor and novelist. He was born in Glasgow but brought up in Portstewart, County Londonderry in Northern Ireland. He was elected a member of Aosdana[2] in 1982.
Education
He was educated at Clongowes Wood College, Queen's College, Oxford and the University of Iowa International Writer's programme. He later taught at Clongowes Wood College. He also worked as a teacher at Sandymount High School in Dublin, the University of Iowa and Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York. He also taught in Germany and Spain.
Publications
Poetry collections included:
Girl With Violin (1968)
Priorities (1979)
Sensualities (1981)
Scurrilities (1981)
New and Selected Poems (1984)
His plays included:
Sherca (1976)
Don Bosco, Grainne and the Dole (1977)
The Impertinence of being Frank (1978)
The Illaunapsppie Triangle (1978)
Houseparty (1979)
Swim Away Babies (1984)
On Course for Brazil (1985)
How to Roast a Strasbourg Goose (Dublin Theatre Festival, 1985)
Up for Bloomsday (1985)
The 2nd Grand Confabulation of Drum Ceat (Dublin Theatre Festival, 1989)
Reason not the Need (1992)
The Shaming of the True (1995)
Novels:
Flannery (1991)
The Book of Shannow (published in literary magazines)
His work was broadcast on RTÉ, BBC and Channel 4, and staged in Ireland; at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe; and in the United States.
Personal life
Smith was married to Cynthia (née Hoxie) and they had three sons (Daniel, Sydney George, Cormac) and a daughter (Emer). At the time of his death he lived in Dundalk, County Louth in Ireland.