Sydney Bernard Smith


Sydney Bernard Smith was a Scots-Irish poet, dramatist, actor and novelist.

Biography

He was born in Glasgow, his father was from Forfar, Angus and his mother from Co. Clare. He was brought up in Portstewart, County Londonderry in Northern Ireland.
He was educated at Clongowes Wood College, Queen's College, Oxford and the University of Iowa International Writer's programme. He later taught at Clongowes Wood College. He also worked as a teacher at Sandymount High School in Dublin, the University of Iowa and Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York. He also taught in Germany and Spain.
Smith was married to Cynthia and they had three sons and a daughter. At the time of his death he lived in Dundalk, County Louth in Ireland.

Awards

Poetry

His work was broadcast on RTÉ, BBC and Channel 4, and staged in Ireland; at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe; and in the United States.