David Marcus

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For the soldier, see Mickey Marcus. For the fictional Star Trek character, see David Marcus (Star Trek).

David Marcus is an Irish Jewish editor who has been a lifelong advocate and editor of Irish-language fiction. Born in Cork in 1924, Marcus has edited numerous anthologies of Irish fiction and poetry, including the Phoenix Irish Short Stories collections. Other notable projects include the page New Irish Writings for the Irish Press, which provided a forum for aspiring Irish authors, and in 1986 the novel A Land Not Theirs, a fictionalized account of the experiences of the Cork Jewish community during the Irish War of Independence. In 2001 Marcus published Oughtobiography - Leaves from the diary of a hyphenated Jew, an autobiographical review of his life as an Irish Jewish person and as a figure in the field of Irish literature. Marcus currently lives in Dublin.