Fitting Healy tribute marred by academia
Essays: Writing the Sky: Observations and Essays on Dermot Healy, Edited by Neil Murphy and Keith Hopper, Dalkey Archive Press, pbk, 380 pages, €37.99
Wild man: Dermot Healy
Dermot Healy, who died in 2014 at the age of 66, had the look of a wild man and the personality to go with it, as anyone who spent a night on the town with him can vividly recall.
There was a wildness to his literary talent, too, not least in the fact that you never quite knew what he'd do next, whether in prose, poetry or drama. And it was this sense of unpredictability that made him hard to categorise and that perhaps led him to being underrated throughout much of his career - he won few major literary awards.
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