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James Finnegan, Dublin born, was the second-prize winner in the 2022 Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Competition and was shortlisted in the 2021
Bridport Poetry Prize and in the 2018 Hennessy Literary Awards for Emerging
Poetry. James, who taught in St Eunan’s College for thirty-three years, holds a doctor
of philosophy in living educational theory from the University of Bath (2001), and is
now retired and has grown into a deeper commitment to reading and writing poetry
since November, 2014. A recent poetry collection, The Weather-Beaten Scarecrow (Doire
Press, 2022) was shortlisted in the Farmgate Café National Poetry Award in April
2023. James and Livinia, along with their six-year-old springer spaniel Daisy, live in
Co Donegal a few kilometres outside Letterkenny
