Writer, poet and novelist Anthony Cronin has passed away

The death has been announced of poet, novelist, biographer and cultural activist Anthony Cronin.

Born in Enniscorthy in 1928, Mr Cronin had an acclaimed career, during which he published 14 volumes of poetry, biographies of Flann O'Brien and Samuel Beckett, several novels, and the classic memoir of literary Dublin in the mid 20th century, Dead As Doornails.