Elgy gillespie biography template
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Elgy Gillespie
English-born Irish journalist
Elgy Gillespie (born 1948) is an English-born Irish journalist and author.
Early life
Gillespie was born in London in 1948, to a Belfast father and an Anglo-German mother.
She went 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: T