DEATH OF POET AND PHILOSOPHER, JOHN O’DONOHUE
Saturday, January 5th, 2008The sudden death has occurred in the South of France of poet and philosopher, John O’Donohue, the author of several books, such as ‘Anam Cara,’ and two collections of poetry. He was 53. Born in Co. Clare, John O’Donohue studied at Maynooth and received his PhD in philosophical theology, based around Hegel, at the beginning of the ‘Nineties from the university of Tubingen. He was also a leading participant in The Burren Action Group. This writer interviewed him and, like many others in Galway, met him from time to time in the streets of that city. His deeply informed intellect was imbued with a sensitive creativity and an awareness of the necessity for the spiritual, imaginative and the intellectual to combine in an understanding of the world. Our sincere sympathies go out to his family.
- Fred Johnston
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