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Patricia Craig (born 1952) is a writer, anthologist and literary critic from Northern Ireland, living in Antrim, County Antrim.

Personal life

She was born in Belfast to Nora (née Brady) and Andy Craig[1] and attended St Dominic's Grammar School for Girls[2] before studying at the Belfast School of Art and then at the Central School of Arts and Crafts, London (where she obtained a Diploma in Art & Design, Hons.). She returned to Northern Ireland in 1999.[1] She is married to the Welsh artist Jeffrey Morgan.[1]

Career

Craig has written memoirs, edited several anthologies and written articles for newspapers.[3] In London she began to collaborate with Mary Cadogan, editing several books on children’s literature. Their first book, You’re a Brick Angela!, became a classic.[4]

On her return to Northern Ireland she began to write books with an Irish theme. One of the first was a biography of Brian Moore which was described by the critic Seamus Deane as 'a crisp and intelligent account of a man and a writer for whom Craig's clean and incisive approach seems perfectly appropriate'.[5] Perhaps her most popular book was the memoir Asking for Trouble (1987) which details her schooldays, culminating in her expulsion from school.[2]

Awards

She was Honorary Lecturer at Queen's University Belfast where she was appointed to the Board of the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry.[6][3]

Publications

  • You're a Brick Angela!: The Girls' Story 1839–1985 (1976)
  • Women and Children First: The Fiction of Two World Wars (1978)
  • The Lady Investigates: Women Detectives and Spies in Fiction (1986)
  • The Oxford Book of English Detective Stories (1990)
  • The Rattle of The North: An Anthology of Ulster Prose (1992)
  • The Penguin Book of British Comic Stories (1992)
  • The Oxford Book of Modern Women's Stories (1994)
  • The Oxford Book of Schooldays (1995)
  • The Oxford Book of Travel Stories (1996)
  • The Oxford Book of Ireland (1998)
  • Twelve Irish Ghost Stories (1998)
  • The Belfast Anthology (1999)
  • The Oxford Book of Detective Stories (2000)
  • Brian Moore: A Biography (2002)[5]
  • Asking for Trouble (2008)[2]
  • A Twisted Root – Ancestral Entanglements in Ireland (2012)[7]
  • Bookworm, A Memoir of Childhood Reading (2015)

References

  1. ^ a b c Brankin, Una (13 November 2015). "Patricia: A literary childhood brought to book". Belfast Telegraph. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
  2. ^ a b c O'Doherty, Malachi (8 January 2008). "Asking for Trouble, by Patricia Craig". The Independent. Retrieved 19 April 2020.
  3. ^ a b "Dr Patricia Craig". Retrieved 2 March 2017.
  4. ^ Sibley, Brian (6 October 2014). "Mary Cadogan Obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 November 2020.
  5. ^ a b Deane, Seamus (14 December 2002). "War and peace". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 April 2020.
  6. ^ "Queen's University Belfast – The Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry".
  7. ^ Elliott, Marianne (2 February 2013). "Who do you think you are?". The Irish Times. Retrieved 19 April 2020.
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