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English-born Irish journalist
Elgy Gillespie (born 1948) is an English-born Irish journalist and author.
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.
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Gillespie wrote for
The Irish Times between 1971 and 1986, for columns including "Women First".
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Gillespie left Ireland in 1986, and has lived in the U.S. since, mostly in
San Francisco.
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In 2018, she received treatment for an
oligodendroglioma.
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- The Flat-Dweller's Companion (1972)
- The Liberties of Dublin (1973; editor)
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- 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)
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- The Rough Guide to San Francisco Restaurants (2003)
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^ 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.
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"Women of the times". The Irish Times.
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^ Brown, Terence (12 March 2015).
The Irish Times: 150 Years of Influence. Bloomsbury Publishing.
ISBN
9781472919076 – via Google Books.
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^ Gillespie, Elgy (6 August 2003).
Changing the Times: Irish Women Journalists 1969-1981. Lilliput Press.
ISBN
9781843510185 – via Google Books.
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^ Mullally, Una.
"A guide to Dublin's old 'junk' markets". The Irish Times.
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^ Gillespie, Elgy.
"My big bad brain tumour – An Irishwoman's Diary on surviving a craniotomy". The Irish Times.
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"The O'Brien Press | Forty Years, Forty Books". The O'Brien Press. Retrieved 4 August 2021.
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^ 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.
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"On-message potatoes". The Irish Times.