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My name is Philip Casey and apart from being a novelist and poet, I’m the begetter and maintainer of Irish Writers Online. You can read my Irish Writers Online entry here

I hope you like the image to the left. It’s the cover image of my new selected poems, Tried and Sentenced, featuring Holbein the Younger’s Allegory of Passion (Courtesy of the Getty Museum Open Content Program). If you’d like to support Irish Writers Online by purchasing my book, please check out my website eMaker Editions by clicking on the image. It is on Kindle and ePub (iBook etc) for the moment, and will soon be available as a print-on-demand paperback.

No obligation, of course. Irish Writers Online is a public service, with no expectation of financial support.
Thank you,
Philip Casey

Inclusion

This is a democratic and inclusive website. Provided the body of a writer’s work fulfills the above criteria, there is no intention to exclude anyone.

If someone is not in IWO, it merely means that I am one person with limited spare time and have either unintentionally overlooked, or have been unaware of the omitted writer.

If you think a writer should be included, please contact me, but read the criteria for inclusion first. If you have information on a writer, so much the better – send it. I would appreciate if you studied the format before sending information.

Criteria for Inclusion

At least one published poetry or short story collection, novel, play or script (not vanity published) or if it’s a play or film, produced professionally. Electronically published books should have an imprint and ISBN.

Please read some sample entries to get an idea of the bare bones format. Essentially: Name, place of birth, year of birth (optional) books, place of publication, publisher, year. Any awards, where living now (optional). Do include your website address if you have one. It’s helpful to mention your discipline or disciplines ie novelist, poet, or novelist and poet, etc.

Contacting writers

I am not in contact with the vast majority of the writers listed. However if you write to me to info@xyz.invalid I will do what I can to point you in the right direction. In general, the best thing to do is contact a writer’s publisher. See Irish Publishers which may help in this regard.