Editing Denis Devlin (section)

==Diplomatic career and later writings==

He joined the Irish Diplomatic Service in 1935 and spent a number of years in [[Rome]] as the Irish Ambassador (1958),<ref>{{cite book |last=De Breffny |first=Brian |author-link= |date=1983 |title=Ireland: A Cultural Encyclopedia |url= |location=London |publisher=Thames and Hudson |page=75 |isbn=}}</ref> [[New York (state)|New York]] and [[Washington, DC|Washington]]. During this time he met the French poet [[Saint-John Perse]], and the Americans [[Allen Tate]] and [[Robert Penn Warren]]. He went on to publish a translation of ''Exile and Other Poems'' by St-John Perse, and Tate and Warren edited his posthumous ''Selected Poems''.

Since his death, there have been two ''Collected Poems'' published; the first in 1964 was edited by Coffey<ref>{{Cite book |last=Devlin |first=Denis |title=Collected Poems edited with an Introduction by Brian Coffey |publisher=Dolman Press |year=1964 |location=Dublin |language=English}}</ref> and the second in 1989 by [[J.C.C. Mays]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Devlin |first=Denis |title=Collected Poems |publisher=Wake Forest University Press |year=1990 |editor-last=Mays |editor-first=JCC |location=North Carolina |language=English}}</ref>

His personal papers are held in [[University College Dublin School of History and Archives|University College Dublin Archives]].