Elgy Gillespie Explained

Elgy Gillespie
Birth Place:	London, United Kingdom
Occupation:	journalist, writer
Language:	English
Alma Mater:	Trinity College, Dublin
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Movement:	Second-wave feminism
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Years Active:	1971–present

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: 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)

Notes and References

1. Book: The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing. Seamus. Deane. Angela. Bourke. Andrew. Carpenter. Jonathan. Williams. August 6, 2002. NYU Press. 9780814799079. Google Books.
2. Web site: Women of the times. The Irish Times.
3. Book: Brown, Terence. The Irish Times: 150 Years of Influence. March 12, 2015. Bloomsbury Publishing. 9781472919076. Google Books.
4. Book: Gillespie, Elgy. Changing the Times: Irish Women Journalists 1969-1981. August 6, 2003. Lilliput Press. 9781843510185. Google Books.
5. Web site: A guide to Dublin's old 'junk' markets. Una. Mullally. The Irish Times.
6. Web site: My big bad brain tumour – An Irishwoman's Diary on surviving a craniotomy. Elgy. Gillespie. The Irish Times.
7. Web site: The O'Brien Press Forty Years, Forty Books. 2021-08-04. The O'Brien Press. en-GB.
8. Book: Kearns, Kevin C.. The Legendary 'Lugs Branigan' – Ireland's Most Famed Garda: How One Man became Dublin's Tough Justice Legend. October 3, 2014. Gill & Macmillan Ltd. 9780717159376. Google Books.
9. Web site: On-message potatoes. The Irish Times.