Robert Greacen (1920–2008) was an Irish poet and member of Aosdána.
Greacen's literary career included poetry, reviewing, and editing.
[1] His published poetry collections include The Bird (1941), Northern Harvest (Belfast, Derrick MacCord, 1944), One Recent Evening (1944), The Undying Day (London, The Falcon Press, 1948), A Garland for Captain Fox (Dublin, The Gallery Press, 1975), I, Brother Stephen (Dublin, St. Beuno's, 1978), Young Mr Gibbon (1979), A Bright Mask, (Dublin, The Dedalus Press, 1985), Protestant Without a Horse (Belfast, The Lagan Press, 1997), Carnival at The River (Dublin; Dedalus;, 1990); Collected Poems (Lagan Press, 1995), Lunch at the Ivy (Lagan Press, 2002), and Selected & New Poems (ed.
Robert Greacen: Collected Poems 1944-1994 won the Irish Times Award for Literature in 1995.
He was married to the late Patricia Hutchins, author of Ezra Pound's Kensington and James Joyce's Dublin.