Dermot Healy (9 November 1947 – 29 June 2014) was an Irish novelist, playwright, poet and short story writer.
[1][2][3] Often overlooked due to his relatively low public profile, Healy's work is admired by his Irish literary predecessors, peers and successors alike, many of whom idolise him—among the writers to have spoken highly of him are Seamus Heaney, Eugene McCabe, Roddy Doyle, Patrick McCabe and Anne Enright.
In his late teens, he moved to London and worked in a succession of jobs, including barman, security man and a labourer.
[4] He died at his home on 29 June 2014, aged 66, while awaiting an ambulance after suddenly being taken ill.[6] He was laid to rest at Carrigans Cemetery following funeral mass by Fr.
[7][8] Healy's work is influenced by an eclectic range of writers from around the world, including Anna Akhmatova, John Arden, Isaac Babel, Bashō, Samuel Beckett, Jorge Luis Borges, Angela Carter, J. M. Coetzee, Emily Dickinson, Maria Edgeworth, T. S. Eliot, Hermann Hesse, Nâzım Hikmet, Aidan Higgins, Miroslav Holub, Eugène Ionesco, Franz Kafka, Mary Lavin, Federico García Lorca, Guy de Maupassant, Edgar Allan Poe, Sylvia Plath, Ezra Pound, William Shakespeare and Robert Louis Stevenson.