Philip Casey was born to Irish parents in London in 1950 and grew up in Co Wexford.
His play Cardinal, was performed in Hamburg in 1990.
His novels are The Fabulists (Dublin, The Lilliput Press, 1994/ London, Serif Books, 1995); The Water Star (London, Picador, 1999); and The Fisher Child (Picador, 2001), which completes The Bann River Trilogy.
He was awarded the inaugural Kerry Ingredients/ Listowel Writers’ Week Novel of the Year Award (1995) for The Fabulists. A member of Aosdána, he tends to Irish Writers Online and other websites in his spare time.
Currently writing a history of Ireland, he lives in Dublin.
Philip Casey at The National Library of Ireland
