Andrew McNeillie (born 12 August 1946) is a British poet and literary editor.
[1] His prose memoir An Aran Keening tells of his stay on Inis Mór, just short of a year through 1968 and 1969.
Adam Nicolson, choosing his book of the year for 2002, in The Daily Telegraph wrote: ‘I enjoyed nothing more this year than An Aran Keening, Andrew McNeillie’s soft, sharp, funny and often heart-wrenchingly nostalgic account of the 11 months he spent on Inishmore, the biggest of the Aran Islands, in the late 1960s.’ Tim Robinson in The Irish Times wrote: ‘…McNeillie’s prose can be as pristine and effervescent as the sea’s edge on a summer beach….Aran is once again a larger place than it was.’ In 2000 McNeillie founded the Clutag Press, in Thame, Oxfordshire.
[2] It has issued limited edition works by Seamus Heaney, Tom Paulin, and Geoffrey Hill among others.
[2] Its literary archive is now collected exclusively by the Bodleian Library, Oxford University.