Moya Cannon was born in Dunfanaghy, Co Donegal, in 1956. Her collections are Oar, for which she received The Brendan Behan Memorial Prize (Galway, Salmon Publishing, 1990); The Parchment Boat (Loughcrew, Co Meath, The Gallery Press, 1997); Carrying the Songs (Manchester, Carcanet Press, 2007); and Hands (Carcanet Press, 2011). She was a recipient of the […]
Dr. Emily Cullen was born in Dublin and grew up in Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim. Her poetry collections are No Vague Utopia (Galway, Ainnir Publishing, 2003); In Between Angels and Animals (Galway, Arlen House, 2013). In 2004 she was the national Programme Director of the Patrick Kavanagh Centenary celebrations and was selected for the Poetry Ireland […]
Gavin Corbett was born in the west of Ireland and grew up in Dublin. His novels are Innocence (New York/London, Pocket, 2003) and This is the Way (London, Fourth Estate/New York, Faber, 2013), for which he received the 2013 Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year. He lives in New York. Gavin Corbett at Janklow […]
Anne-Marie Casey was a script editor and producer of prime-time television drama for ten years before becoming a writer full time. She has written scripts for films and television series in the UK and Ireland and her stage adaptation of Little Women was staged at the Gate Theatre in Dublin in 2011. Her first novel […]
Ciarán Collins was born in Cork in 1977 and grew up in the village of Innishannon, Co. Cork. His debut novel is The Gamal (London, Bloomsbury, 2013/New York, Bloomsbury, 2013). He lives in Kinsale with his wife and has one daughter. Ciarán Collins’ website
Declan Collinge was born in Dublin. His poetry collections are Sealgaireacht (Báile Átha Cliath, Clóchomhar Teo, 1982); Faoi Léigear (Báile Átha Cliath, Coiscéim, 1986); Fearful Symmetry (Dublin, Mentor Books 1990); Common Ground (Inisfail Press, 1996); Teachtaireacht Téacsa (Coiscéim 2007); and The Lonely Hush of Eve/ Tost Uaigneach na hOíche: Selected and New Poems/Rogha Dánta agus […]
Enda Coyle-Greene was born in Dublin. Her collections are Snow Negatives, (Dublin, Dedalus Press, 2007); and Map of the Last (Dedalus Press, 2013). She has been nominated for a Hennessy Literary Award for poetry and was shortlisted for a Francis MacManus Award for fiction. She won the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award in 2006. She lives […]
Catherine Ann Cullen was born in Drogheda, Co Louth. Her poetry collections are A Bone in My Throat (Tralee, Doghouse Books, 2007); and Strange Familiar (Doghouse Books, 2013). Her verse-stories for childrens are The Magical, Mystical, Marvelous Coat ([illustrated by David Christiana] New York, Little Brown, 2001); and Thirsty Baby ([illustrated David M. McPhail] Little […]
Mary Costello is originally from East Galway. Her first short story collection is The China Factory (Dublin, The Stinging Fly, 2012). She lives in Dublin. Mary Costello at The Stinging Fly The China Factory review by Anne Enright in The Guardian Mary Costello on Twitter Mary Costello at The National Library of Ireland
Tony Cafferky was born in Dublin. He has published a novel, Baulox (Dingle, Brandon 1984); and Storia del Identito, short fiction in translation (Milan, 1988). He has had three stage plays produced: Corporation Flat, Cement and Potatoes. He was awarded the inaugural Brendan Behan Fellowship in 1981. He lives in Leitrim. Tony Cafferky at The […]
Louise C. Callaghan was born in 1948 and brought up in County Dublin. Her collections are The Puzzle-Heart (Cliffs of Moher, Salmon, 1999); Remember The Birds (Salmon Poetry, 2005); and In The Ninth House (Salmon Poetry, 2010). She compiled and edited Forgotten Light: An Anthology of Memory Poems (A & A Farmar, 2003). Her poetry is […]
Mary Rose Callaghan was born in Dublin in 1944. Her novels include Mothers (Dublin, Arlen House 1982, London, Marian Boyars, 1984); Confessions of a Prodigal Daughter (London & New York, Marion Boyars, 1985); The Awkward Girl (Dublin, Attic Press, 1989); Has Anyone Seen Heather? (Attic Press, 1990); Emigrant Dreams (Dublin, Poolbeg Press, 1996), republished as […]
Siobhán Campbell was born in Dublin. Her collections are The Permanent Wave (Belfast, The Blackstaff Press, 1996); The Cold That Burns (The Blackstaff Press, 2000). and Cross-Talk (Cardiff, Seren, 2009). She has also published two chapbooks, That Water Speaks in Tongues (Derbyshire, Templar, 2008); and Darwin Among the Machines (Powys, Rack Press, 2009). A She […]
Marina Carr was born in 1964 and grew up in Co Offaly. Her main theatrical works include Low in the Dark (Project Arts Centre, Dublin, 1989); The Deer’s Surrender (Dublin, Andrews Lane Theatre,1990); This Love Thing (Dublin, Project Arts Centre, and Belfast, Old Museum Building, 1991); Ullaloo (Dublin, The Abbey Theatre, The Peacock stage, 1991); […]
Paul Vincent Carroll was born Co Louth in 1900. His plays includes the one-act The Watched Pot (Dublin, The Abbey, Peacock Stage, 1930); The Things That are Caesar’s (Dublin, The Abbey Theatre, 1932); Coggerers (The Abbey Theatre, 1937 [later renamed The Conspirators]); Shadow and Substance (The Abbey Theatre, 1937), which was the winner of the […]
Joyce Cary was born Arthur Joyce Lunel in Derry City in 1888, the family home being Castle Cary in Inishowen, Co Donegal. He settled in Oxford in 1920, having been wounded during World War I. His Novels include Aissa Saved (London, Ernest Benn 1932); An American Visitor (Ernest Benn 1933); The African Witch (London, Victor […]
Eileen Casey was born in the Midlands. Her debut poetry collection is Drinking the Colour Blue (Dublin, New Island Books, 2008). From Bone to Blossom (Dublin, Altents Publishing, 2011), a collaborative work with visual artist Emma Barone and featuring an introduction by Grace Wells, received support from Offaly County Council and South Dublin County Council. […]
Kevin Casey was born in Kells, Co Meath in 1940. His novels are The Sinner’s Bell (London, Faber 1968); A Sense of Survival (Faber, 1974); Dreams of Revenge (Faber, 1977); and A State of Mind (Dublin, The Lilliput Press, 2009). He lives in Dublin. Kevin Casey at Faber & Faber Kevin Casey at The National […]
Paul Casey was born in Cork, Ireland in 1968. His debut collection is home more or less (Cliffs of Moher, Salmon Poetry, 2012). His chapbook of longer poems is It’s Not all Bad (Coventry, Heaventree Press, 2009) In October 2010 his poetry-film The Lammas Hireling, after the poem by Ian Duhig, premièred at the Zebra […]
Philip Casey was born to Irish parents in London in 1950 and grew up in Co Wexford. His verse collections are Those Distant Summers (Dublin, Raven Arts Press, 1980); After Thunder (Raven Arts Press, 1985); The Year of the Knife Poems 1980-1990, (Raven Arts Press Dublin, 1991); Dialogue in Fading Light/New and Selected Poems (Dublin, […]
William Carleton was born in Prillisk, Co Tyrone, in 1794 to small farmers, and was one of fourteen children. His father was fluent in Irish and English and was an accomplished story-teller, with, according to his son, an astonishing memory. His mother, Mary Kelly, was an accomplished singer in Irish, and was famous at wakes, […]
Thomas Carnduff was born in Belfast in 1886. He worked at a variety of jobs, at the Belfast shipyards and elsewhere, and also served as a sapper in the Royal Engineers during the First World War. He later served in the Ulster Special Constabulary. His poetry is collected as Songs from the Shipyard and other […]
Ciaran Carson was born in Belfast in 1948. His poetry collections include The New Estate (Belfast, Blackstaff Press, 1976) which won the Eric Gregory Award; The Irish for No (Oldcastle, Co Meath, The Gallery Press, 1987, and subsequently Wake Forest Press, USA/Bloodaxe Books, UK), which won the Alice Hunt Bartlett Award; Belfast Confetti (Gallery Books, […]
Seamus Cashman was born in Conna, Co Cork in 1943. His poetry collections are Carnival (Dublin, Monarchline, 1987); Clowns & Acrobats (Monarchline, Dublin, October, 1997); and That Morning Will Come, New & Selected Poems (Cliffs of Moher, Salmon Poetry, 2007). He has edited, with Bridie Quinn, The Wolfhound Book of Irish Poems for Young People, […]
Patrick Chapman was born in Co Roscommon in 1968. His poetry collections are Jazztown (Dublin, Raven Arts Press, 1991); The New Pornography (Galway, Salmon, 1996); Breaking Hearts And Traffic Lights (The Cliffs of Moher, Salmon, 2007); and The Darwin Vampires (Salmon Poetry, 2010). His stories are collected as The Wow Signal, (Portishead, Bluechrome, 2007), and […]
James Cheasty was born in Waterford in 1928. He is the author of a novel, The Captive (Dublin, 1965), and several plays, including A Stranger Came (Dublin, Progress House, 1956 [foreword by Teresa Deevey and notes on production]); The Lost Years (1958); Francey (Dublin, The Olympia Theatre, 1962, Illsley-McCabe Productions [Irish translation, 1964]); All Set […]
Glenda Cimino was born in Atlanta, and moved to Ireland in the early seventies. She has been editor of Beaver Row Press, publishing poets such as Paula Meehan, Brendan Kennelly and Eithne Strong from a handpress. Her collection of poems, Cicada, was published by Beaver Row in 1988. She lives in Dublin. Glenda Cimino at […]
Paula Clamp was born in 1967. Her novels are Standing in a Hammock (Dublin, Poolbeg Publications, 2002); and Beetle Mania (Poolbeg Publications, 2003). She lives in Jordanstown, Co. Antrim. Paula Clamp at The National Library of Ireland
Austin Clarke was born in Dublin in 1896. His collections include Collected Poems (London, George Allen & Unwin, 1936); Later Poems (Dublin, The Dolmen Press, 1961); Flight to Africa and Other Poems (The Dolmen Press, 1963); Mnemosyne Lay in Dust (The Dolmen Press, 1966); Old Fashioned Pilgrimage and Other Poems (The Dolmen Press, 1967); The […]
Sean Clarkin was born in New Ross, Co Wexford, in 1941. His full collection to date is Without Frenzy (Oldcastle, Co Meath, The Gallery Press, 1974). He was the inaugural winner of The Patrick Kavanagh Award in 1971. He lives in Co Wexford. Sean Clarkin at The National Library of Ireland
Brian Cleeve was born in Essex of a Limerick family in 1921, and settled in Dublin in the mid-1950s. His short fiction includes The Horse Thieves of Ballsaggert (Cork, Mercier Press 1966). His novels include Far Hills (London, Jarrolds, 1953); Portrait of My City (Jarrolds, 1953); Birth of a Dark Soul (Jarrolds, 1953, published in […]
Harry Clifton was born in Dublin in 1952. His poetry collections are The Walls of Carthage (Dublin, The Gallery Press, 1977); Office of the Salt Merchant (The Gallery Press, 1979); Comparative Lives (Oldcastle, Co Meath, The Gallery Press, 1982); The Liberal Cage(The Gallery Press, 1988), Night Train through the Brenner (The Gallery Press, 1996), The […]
Michael Coady was born in Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary, in 1939. His poetry collections are Two for a Woman, Three for a Man (Loughcrew, Co Meath, Gallery Books, 1980); Oven Lane (Gallery, 1987), All Souls (Gallery, 1998), an illustrated compendium of poetry and prose; One Another (The Gallery Press, 2003); and Going By Water (The Gallery […]
Brian Coffey was born in Dublin in 1905, and lived abroad for much of his life, in France, The United States and England, during which time he taught philosophy and mathematics. His first book, Poems, shared with Dennis Devlin, was published in 1930, and was described by Samuel Beckett as constituting ‘the nucleus of a […]
William Congreve was born in 1672, not 1670 and not at Bardsley, near Leeds in England, as he claimed. His father was steward to the Earl of Burlington, 1st Earl of Cork, and it is likely that he was born on the estates in Cork. At a very early age he was sent to school […]
Eoin Colfer was born in Wexford in 1965. His books are Benny & Omar (Dublin, The O’Brien Press 1990); Ed’s Funny Feet (O’Brien, 2000); Ed’s Bed (O’Brien, 2001); The Wish List (O’Brien, 2002); Artemis Fowl (London, Viking Children’s, 2001); Artemis Fowl: The Artic Incident (London, Viking/Puffin, 2002); Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code (Puffin, 2003); Artemis […]
Mary Coll’s collection is All Things Considered (The Cliffs of Moher, Co Clare, Salmon Poetry, 2002). She works as a writer, critic and broadcaster and lives in Limerick. Mary Coll at The National Library of Ireland
Mael Coll Rua was born in Cork in 1962. He has published two chapbooks, Outburst (Dublin, Chantin’ Tongue Press, ndg); and Street Corners (Chantin’ Tongue Press, 1990), but he is best known as a performance poet, working from a collection called North Light Razor Blade Company. He lives in Dublin. Mael Coll Rua at The […]
Michael Collins was born in Limerick in 1964. His stories are collected as The Meat Eaters (London, Jonathan Cape, 1992) published in the US as The Man Who Dreamt of Lobsters (New York, Random House, 1993), which was cited as a New York Times Notable Book; and The Feminists Go Swimming (London, Pheonix House, 1996). […]
Padraic Colum was born Patrick Collumb on 8 December 1881 at Collumbkille, County Longford. In 1901 he joined the Gaelic League and adopted the Irish form of his name, Padraic Colum. Colum was an original Abbey Theatre charter signer and wrote several of the Abbey Theatre’s earliest plays. As a result he became friendly with […]
Evelyn Conlon was born in Monaghan in 1952. Her collections of short stories are My Head is Opening (Attic Press, 1987); Taking Scarlet as a Real Colour (Dublin, Attic Press 1989); and telling, new and selected stories (Belfast, The Blackstaff Press, 2000). Her novels are Stars in the Daytime (Belfast, The Blackstaff Press/London, The Women’s […]
Shane Connaughton was born in Cavan in 1941. He trained as an actor at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, and has acted in several plays and films. He has published a collection of short stories, A Border Station (London, St Martin’s Press, 1989), for which he was short listed for the GPA Literary Award; […]
John Connolly was born in Dublin in 1968. His novels are Every Dead Thing (London, Hodder & Stoughton, New York, Simon & Schuster, 1999), Winner of the Shamus Award for Best First Novel, 1999; Dark Hollow (Hodder & Stoughton, 2000); The Killing Kind (Hodder & Stoughton, 2001/New York, Atria, 2001); The White Road (Hodder & […]
Kieron Connolly was born in Tipperary in 1961. His novels are Watersign (Dublin, Marino Books, 2001); There is a House (Marino, 2003); and Harold (Dublin Jillbeck Books, 2010). He lives in Dublin. Kieron Connolly at Avery Oslo Kieron Connolly at The National Library of Ireland
Susan Connolly was born in Drogheda, Co. Louth in 1956. Her principal collections are For the Stranger (Dublin, Dedalus Press,1993); and Forest Music (Exeter, UK, Shearsman, 2009). With Anne-Marie Moroney, she published Stone and Tree Sheltering Water: An Exploration of Sacred and Secular Wells in Co. Louth (Drogheda, Flax Mill, 1998). Other short collections include […]
June Considine is the author of twelve books for pre-teens and young adults. These include the best-selling trilogy, When the Luvenders Came to Merrick Town, Luvenders at the Old Mill and Island of Luvenders. Her novel View from a Blind Bridge was short-listed for Bisto Award and was followed by The Glass Triangle. She also […]
Emma Cooke was born in Portarlington, Co Laois, in 1934, christened Enid Blanc. The Blancs, of Hugenot descent, are immortalised in James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake as ‘‘Blong’s best from Portarlinton’s Butchery.’’ Her short stories are collected as Female Forms (Dublin, Poolebeg Press, 1986). Her novels are A Single Sensation (Poolebeg Press, 1979); Eve’s Apple (Belfast, […]
Michael Corrigan was born in San Francisco in 1942. His books are a memoir, Confessions of a Shanty Irishman (New York, Publish America, 2002); The Irish Connection and Other Stories (Publish America, 2004); Byron (Virtualbookworm.com Publishing, 2005); The Filmmakers (Virtualbookworm.com Publishing, 2008); and A Year and a Day (Idaho University Press, 2008). He has also […]
Patrick Cotter was born in Cork in 1963. His collections are The Mysogynist’s Blue Nightmare (Raven Arts Press, 1990); A Socialist’s Dozen (Cork, Three Spires Press, 1990); and The True Story of Aoife and Lir’s Children & other poems (Three Spires Press, 2002); Perplexed Skin (Dublin, Arlen House, 2008); and Making Music (Three Spires Press, […]
Roz Cowman was born in Cork in 1942. Her collection is The Goose Herd (Salmon Poetry, The Cliffs of Moher, Co Clare, 1989). Her non-fiction includes Our Daily Bread: A History of Barron’s Bakery, with photographs by Arna Run Runarsdottir (Cork, Onstream Publications, 2011). She received the Arlen House/Maxwell House award in 1982, and the […]
Anthony Cronin was born in Co Wexford in 1928. His many works include the novels The Life of Riley (London, Secker & Warburg, 1964); and Identity Papers (Dublin, Co-Op Books, 1980). His collections of poems are Poems (London, Cresset, 1958); Collected Poems, 1950-73 (Dublin, New Writers Press, 1973); Reductionist Poem (Dublin, Raven Arts Press, 1980); […]
Paddy Crosbie was born in Dublin in 1913. His books are Tales from the School Around the Corner (Dublin and Cork, The Mercier Press, 1979); and Your Dinner’s Poured Out (with an introduction by James Plunkett, Dublin, O’Brien Press, 1981). A teacher by profession, he worked as a script writer in the Capitol Theatre, Dublin […]
Eric Cross was born in 1905 in Newry, Co. Down, but he was raised and educated in England where he became a chemical engineer and inventor. His book The Tailor and Ansty (with an introduction by Frank O’Connor, London, Chapman & Hall 1942, 1964/Cork, Mercier, 1970), was banned for a number of years and was […]
Carmen Cullen was born in Tipperary in 1950. She has published Class Acts (plays for schools, Dublin, Folens, 1994); Sky of Kites, Poetry for Children (Co Wicklow, Kestrel Books, 1998); and Under the Eye of the Moon (with illustrations by Oona McFarland: Cork, Mercier Press, 2001). She was Director of the Oscar Wilde Autumn School, […]
Leo Cullen was born in Tipperary in 1949. He has published a collection of short stories, Clocking Ninety on the Road to Cloughjordan (Belfast, Blackstaff Press, 1994/Dufour, 1995); and a novel, Let’s Twist Again (Blackstaff Press, 2001). His awards include the Ireland & UK section of David Wong Pen International short story competition, 2003. His […]
Peter Cunningham was born in Waterford in 1947. His novels include Who Trespass Against US (London, Century Books, 1993); the Monument trilogy: Tapes of the River Delta (Century Books, 1995); Consequences of the Heart (London, The Harvill Press, 1998); Love in One Edition (The Harvill Press, 2001); Taoiseach (London, Sceptre, 2004);The Sea and The Silence […]
Kevin Cully was born in Dublin in 1950. His novel is Ring of Rocks (London, Hutchinson, 1992/Kindle, 2012). He currently lives in Cornwall, UK. Kevin Anthony Cully on Facebook Kevin Cully at The National Library of Ireland
Philip Cummings, born in Belfast in 1964. His first poetry collection Néalta (Coiscéim, 2005) won the Irish Language prize in the Glen Dimplex New Writers Awards 2006 and was shortlisted for the Rupert and Eithne Strong Award 2006. Dar Liom (Coiscéim, 2008) is a selection of his columns from the newspaper Lá Nua, where he […]
Tim Cunningham was born in Limerick in 1942. His collections are Don Marcellino’s Daughter (Cornwall, UK, Peterloo Poets, 2001; Unequal Thirds (Peterloo Poets, 2006); and Kyrie (Limerick, Revival Press, 2008). He lives in Billericay, Essex, UK. Tim Cunningham’s website Tim Cunningham at Peterloo Poets Tim Cunningham at The National Library of Ireland
Tony Curtis was born in Dublin in 1955. His collections are The Shifting of Stones (Dublin, Beaver Row Press,1986); Behind the Green Curtain (Beaver Row Press, 1988); This Far North (Dublin,The Dedalus Press, 1994); Three Songs of Home (The Dedalus Press, 1998); What Darkness Covers (Todmorton, Lancs. UK, Arc Publications, 2003); and The Well in […]
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