English-born Irish journalist
Elgy Gillespie (born 1948) is an English-born Irish journalist and author.
Gillespie was born inLondon in 1948, to aBelfast father and an Anglo-German mother. She went toDublin aged 17, reading English atTrinity College, Dublin.[1][2]
Gillespie wrote forThe Irish Times between 1971 and 1986, for columns including "Women First".[3][4][5]
Gillespie left Ireland in 1986, and has lived in the U.S. since, mostly inSan Francisco.[2]
In 2018, she received treatment for anoligodendroglioma.[6]
- 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)
- You Say Potato! (2001)[9]
- The Rough Guide to San Francisco Restaurants (2003)
- ^Deane, Seamus; Bourke, Angela; Carpenter, Andrew; Williams, Jonathan (6 August 2002).The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing. NYU Press.ISBN 9780814799079 – via Google Books.
- ^ab"Women of the times".The Irish Times.
- ^Brown, Terence (12 March 2015).The Irish Times: 150 Years of Influence. Bloomsbury Publishing.ISBN 9781472919076 – via Google Books.
- ^Gillespie, Elgy (6 August 2003).Changing the Times: Irish Women Journalists 1969-1981. Lilliput Press.ISBN 9781843510185 – via Google Books.
- ^Mullally, Una."A guide to Dublin's old 'junk' markets".The Irish Times.
- ^Gillespie, Elgy."My big bad brain tumour – An Irishwoman's Diary on surviving a craniotomy".The Irish Times.
- ^"The O'Brien Press | Forty Years, Forty Books".The O'Brien Press. Retrieved4 August 2021.
- ^Kearns, Kevin C. (3 October 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.
- ^"On-message potatoes".The Irish Times.
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