Elgy Gillespie

Elgy F. Gillespie (born 1950) is an English-born Irish journalist and author.

Elgy Gillespie
Born1950 (age 70–71)
London, United Kingdom
Occupationjournalist, writer
LanguageEnglish
Alma materTrinity College, Dublin
Literary movementSecond-wave feminism
Years active1971–present

Early life

Gillespie was born in London in 1950, to a Belfast father and an Anglo-German mother. She came to Dublin aged 17, reading English at Trinity College, Dublin.[1][2]

Career

Gillespie wrote for The Irish Times between 1971 and 1986, for columns including "Women First".[3][4][5]

Personal life

Gillespie left Ireland in 1986, and has lived in the U.S. since, mostly in San Francisco.[2]

In 2018, she received treatment for an oligodendroglioma.[6]

Bibliography

Irish topics
  • The Flat-Dweller's Companion (1972)
  • The Liberties of Dublin (1973; editor)[7][8]
  • The Country Life Picture Book of Ireland (1982)
  • Portraits of the Irish (1986, with Liam Blake)
  • Changing The Times: Irish Women Journalists 1969-1981 (2003; editor)
  • Vintage Nell: The McCafferty Reader (2005; editor)
  • Irish Theater Is Alive and Flourishing (2013)

Food writing
  • You Say Potato! (2001)[9]
  • The Rough Guide to San Francisco Restaurants (2003)

References
  1. Deane, Seamus; Bourke, Angela; Carpenter, Andrew; Williams, Jonathan (August 6, 2002). The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing. NYU Press. ISBN 9780814799079 – via Google Books.
  2. "Women of the times". The Irish Times.
  3. Brown, Terence (March 12, 2015). The Irish Times: 150 Years of Influence. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781472919076 – via Google Books.
  4. Gillespie, Elgy (August 6, 2003). Changing the Times: Irish Women Journalists 1969-1981. Lilliput Press. ISBN 9781843510185 – via Google Books.
  5. Mullally, Una. "A guide to Dublin's old 'junk' markets". The Irish Times.
  6. Gillespie, Elgy. "My big bad brain tumour – An Irishwoman's Diary on surviving a craniotomy". The Irish Times.
  7. https://www.obrien.ie/40years
  8. Kearns, Kevin C. (October 3, 2014). The Legendary 'Lugs Branigan' – Ireland's Most Famed Garda: How One Man became Dublin's Tough Justice Legend. Gill & Macmillan Ltd. ISBN 9780717159376 – via Google Books.
  9. "On-message potatoes". The Irish Times.
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