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Northern Irish poet
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Biography
Introduction
Francis Arthur "Frank" Ormsby (born 1947, Irvinestown, County Fermanagh) is a Northern Ireland-born poet.
Life
He was educated at St Michael's College, Enniskillen, and Queen's University Belfast. He was editor of The Honest Ulsterman from 1969-89, and has also edited the Poetry Ireland Review. From 1976 until his retirement in 2010 he was Head of English at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution.
In 1992 he received the Cultural Traditions Award, given in memory of John Hewitt, and in 2002 the Lawrence O'Shaughnessy Award for Poetry from the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota.