Seán Lucy

[1] His father was an Irish officer in the British army, who resigned his commission in 1935 to resettle the family in Ireland.

Lucy was enrolled at Glenstal Abbey School, and later attended University College Cork, where he earned his bachelor's and master's degrees.

[citation needed] Lucy returned to Ireland in 1960 and joined the English faculty at University College Cork (UCC) in 1962,[2] where he eventually became professor and department chair.

[3] Following his early retirement from UCC in 1986,[1] Lucy moved to Chicago and married his second wife, fellow poet, Susan Leah Lederman.

[3] Lucy was involved in bringing the poet John Montague to the English Department at UCC,[4] and the poets and writers Greg Delanty, William Wall, Theo Dorgan, Sean Dunne, Maurice Riordan, Gerry Murphy and Thomas McCarthy were students of Montague and Lucy at UCC in the 1970s.