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Eileen Battersby

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Gender Female
Born California
United States
Date of died December 23,2018
DiedDrogheda
Ireland
Job Journalist
Literary critic
BooksTeethmarks on My Tongue
Ordinary Dogs
Second Readings: From Beckett to Black Beauty
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Eileen Battersby was the chief literary critic of The Irish Times. She sometimes divided opinion, having been described by John Banville as "the finest fiction critic we have", while attracting the ire of Eugene McCabe after she gave Dermot Healy an unfavourable review in 2011.

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