Dermot O'Connell "Midnight Mass in Dublin 4"

Dermot O’Connell is a retired professor of architecture at University College Dublin (UCD). About 1975 he co-founded Third Degree, a UCD journal with literary pretensions, which lasted about five issues. He has written occasional articles, and one and a half (unprod-uced) plays. Midnight Mass in Dublin 4 is his first poem. He is now writing another, The Ballad of Michael Cleary, about the charismatic Dublin priest and entertainer.