Patrick Deeley (born 1953) is an Irish poet.
Patrick Deeley was born in Loughrea, County Galway.[1][2][3] His poems have been widely published and anthologised in Ireland and abroad over the past forty years, and translated to French, Italian, Spanish and other languages.[1][3] He has received awards, including the inaugural Dermot Healy Poetry Prize and the 2019 Lawrence O'Shaughnessy Prize for Poetry.[1] His works of fiction for younger readers include The Lost Orchard, winner of the Eilís Dillon Award in 2001.[1][3] His bestselling memoir, The Hurley Maker's Son, was published by Doubleday Ireland/Transworld and shortlisted for the 2016 Irish Nonfiction Book of the Year Award.[1] He formerly worked as a primary school principal in Dublin.[1][2] In the 1980s, Deeley was on the council of Poetry Ireland.[3]