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Matthew Sweeney was born on 6 October, 1952 in Lifford, County Donegal, Ireland, is an Irish poet (1952–2018). Discover Matthew Sweeney's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 65 years old?
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6 October, 1952 |
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Lifford, County Donegal, Ireland |
Date of death |
5 August, 2018 |
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Cork University Hospital, Ireland |
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Ireland
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Who Is Matthew Sweeney's Wife?
His wife is Rosemary Barber
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Nico (daughter)
Malvin (son) |
Matthew Sweeney Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Matthew Sweeney worth at the age of 65 years old? Matthew Sweeney’s income source is mostly from being a successful Poet. He is from Ireland. We have estimated Matthew Sweeney's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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Two offspring – daughter Nico and son Malvin – were produced before the couple went their separate ways in the early 21st century.
Matthew Gerard Sweeney (6 October 1952 – 5 August 2018) was an Irish poet.
His work has been translated into Dutch, Italian, Hebrew, Japanese, Latvian, Mexican Spanish, Romanian, Slovakian and German.
According to the poet Gerard Smyth: "I always sensed that in the first instance [Sweeney] regarded himself as a European rather than an Irish poet – and rightly so: like the German Georg Trakl whom he admired he apprehended the world in a way that challenged our perceptions and commanded our attention."
Sweeney's work has been considered "barely touched by the mainstream of English writing" and more so by the German writers Kleist, Büchner, Kafka, Grass and Böll, as well as the aforementioned Trakl.
According to Poetry International Web, Sweeney would be among the top five most famous Irish poets on the international scene.
Sweeney was born at Lifford, County Donegal, in 1952.
Growing up in Clonmany, he attended Gormanston College (1965–70).
He then read sciences at University College Dublin (1970–72).
He met Rosemary Barber in 1972.
He went on to study German and English at the Polytechnic of North London, spending a year at the University of Freiburg, before graduating with a BA Honours degree in 1978.
Bill Swainson, Sweeney's editor at Allison and Busby in the 1980s, recalls: "As well as writing his own poetry, Matthew was a great encourager of poetry in others. The workshops he animated, and later the residencies he undertook, were famous for their geniality and seriousness and fun. Sometime in the late 1980s I attended one of these workshops in an upstairs room of a pub in Lamb's Conduit Street, Bloomsbury, where the poems were circulated anonymously and carefully read and commented on by all. Around the pushed-together tables were Ruth Padel, Eva Salzman, Don Paterson, Maurice Riordan, Jo Shapcott, Lavinia Greenlaw, Michael Donaghy, Maura Dooley and Tim Dooley."
Sweeney later had residencies at the University of East Anglia and London's Southbank Centre, among many others.
His novels for children include The Snow Vulture (1992) and Fox (2002).
He read at three Rotterdam Poetry Festivals, in 1998, 2003 and 2009.
His final year saw the publication of two new collections: My Life As A Painter (Bloodaxe Books) and King of a Rainy Country (Arc Publications), inspired by Baudelaire's posthumously published Petits poèmes en prose.
Having lived in London for many years until 2001, Sweeney separated from Rosemary and went to live in Timișoara (Romania) and Berlin (Germany).
In 2007, he met his partner, Mary Noonan, and in early 2008 he moved to Cork to live with her there.
Sweeney produced numerous collections of poetry for which he won several awards.
He authored a satirical thriller, co-written with John Hartley Williams, and entitled Death Comes for the Poets (2012).
Having been diagnosed with motor neuron disease the previous year (a fate that had earlier befallen a sister of his), Sweeney died aged 65 at Cork University Hospital on 5 August 2018, surrounded by family and friends.
He had continued writing up until three days before he died.
In an interview shortly before his death he was quizzed on his legacy, to which he gave the response: "Mostly what awaits the poet is posthumous oblivion. Maybe there will be a young man in Hamburg, or Munich, or possibly Vienna, for whom my German translations will be for a while important – and might just contribute to him becoming a German language poet with Irish leanings."
On 9 August 2018, Sweeney was buried in Clonmany New Cemetery in County Donegal.