Scully was born in Dublin and educated at Trinity College, where he edited the student literary magazine, Icarus. He has lived in Italy and Africa.
His books include Love Poems & Others (1981), Five Freedoms of Movement (1987, revised edition 1000), Steps (1998) and Livelihood: Collected Poems 1981-2001 (due 2004). He founded and edited two literary journals, The Belle and The Beau. He ran Coelocanth Press and organised a series of readings and events under that banner in the mid 1980s.
Scully is currently poet-in-residence for North Tipperary.
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