Kevin Ireland ex-wife: Who is Phoebe Caroline Dalwood?

Kevin Ireland’s ex-wife: Who is Phoebe Caroline Dalwood? – Phoebe Caroline Dalwood is the ex-wife of Kevin Mark Ireland OBE, a New Zealand poet, short story writer, novelist, and librettist who passed away on May 19, 2023, at age 89. Though it is unknown how long they were married, the pair are thought to have been married for many years.

Kevin and Dalwood had two sons. There is no more information available about Dalwood.

Kevin Ireland was born Kevin Mark Jowsey on July 18, 1933, in Auckland, New Zealand. In 1957, he changed his surname to Ireland through a deed poll.

Ireland moved to London in 1959 and stayed for twenty-five years (with the exception of a brief stint in Bulgaria translating Bulgarian poetry into English); Ireland worked for The Times for two decades.

Ireland was a writer-in-residence at Canterbury University in 1986; in 1987, he received the Grimshaw-Sargeson Fellowship; in 1989, he was a writing fellow at the University of Auckland; and in 1990-91, he was president of PEN.

His honors include:

• 1979 – New Zealand Book Award for Poetry for Literary Cartoons
• 1990 – New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal
• 1992 – Appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, for services to literature, in the 1992 Queen’s Birthday Honours
• 2000 – Conferred with an honorary Doctor of Literature degree from Massey University
• 2004 – Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement

Ireland died on May 19, 2023, in Auckland, following a battle with cancer, at the age of 89.