DENIS DONOGHUE

What an astounding teacher--I had him in 1968-70 in Dublin and when I told him how much he had inspired me a few years ago by email he was clearly pleased. May he rest in peace. It was a privilege to have had contact with him. My best to his family.

He was an inspiration when I sat at his lectures in University College Dublin in 1968-70. He was proud of his humble Killarney origins. May he rest in glory

As an undergraduate at UCD I remember him as a formidable and somewhat intimidating lecturer, and although I did not follow the path of literary criticism his high ideals of scholarship gave me a model to aspire to. He was “the real thing”—nothing intellectually phony about him. And I knew from talking to his friends that he had a very warm and human side to him.










intimidating

I read every thing he wrote about Yeats when I was a graduate student at Fordham University in NY in the 70's. Ironically, I ordered his book, Warrenpoint, for my wife 2 weeks ago. It arrived two days ago. Sad, but still a memory of one of the great ones.

An inspirational teacher and a fountain of knowledge on W. B. Years. Honoured to be a student of hid in U. C. D in the mid 1970s
Ar dheis Dé a anam dilís.

I was privileged to have been a student of his in the late '70s, diligently attending his English Lit lectures in University College Dublin. I was utterly enraptured by his erudition and brilliant critical mind. He pushed me on the creative writing road. Some years later I found myself seated next to him at a David Mamet play in Dublin's Abbey Theatre. During the intermission I remarked: "Professor, this makes a change from all those Jacobean revenge tragedies!". The world has lost a great scholar and an inspirational teacher. R.I.P.