Miriam Gallagher was born in Waterford. Her books are Let’s Help Our Children Talk (non fiction), (Dublin, The O’Brien Press, 1977, 1978, 1979); Fancy Footwork (Selected Plays) (Dublin, Society of Irish Playwrights, 1991, 1997); and Song for Salamander (a novel) (2004, Trafford, Victoria, BC, Canada). She has also published short stories, including Pusakis at Paros […]
Owen Gallagher was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1949 of Irish parents. His mother was from Leitrim, his father, Donegal. His collections are Sat Guru Snowman (UK, Peterloo Poets, 2001); and Tea with the Taliban (Middlesborough, UK, Smokestack Books, 2012) He received an award from the London Arts Board in 2002. He lives in London. […]
Patrick Galvin was born in Cork in 1927. His poetry collections include Heart of Grace (London, Linden Press, 1957); Christ in London (Linden Press, 1960); The Wood-burners (Dublin, New Writers Press, 1973); Man on the Porch (London, Martin Brien & O’Keeffe, 1980); Madwoman of Cork (cassette recording); Folktales for the General (Dublin, Raven Arts Press, […]
Fergal Gaynor was born in Cork City in 1969, of Tipperary parents. He has published one collection of poetry, VIII Stepping Poems & other pieces (Miami University Press/Dublin, New Writers’ Press, 2011). Since 2000, when he co-founded the art interventionist group Art / not art, he has been involved in the arts, especially in his […]
Carlo Gébler was born to the writers Edna O’Brien and Ernest Gébler in Dublin in 1954. He moved to London with his mother in 1958. His novels include The Eleventh Summer (London, Hamish Hamilton/New York, Dutton 1985); August in July (Hamish Hamilton, 1986); Work and Play (Hamish Hamilton/ New York, Fireside, 1987); Malachy and His […]
Ernest Gébler was born in Dublin in 1915. He was married for a time to Edna O’Brien and they had two sons, Sasha, and the novelist Carlo Gébler. His principal novels are He had My Heart Scalded; The Voyage of the Mayflower (1950), which was filmed and sold five million copies; A Week in the […]
Monk Gibbon was born in Dublin in 1896. He studied in Oxford from 1915 but the following year year joined the British Army and served in France. On leave in Dublin in Easter, 1916, he was involved in the incident in the Irish Rising when Major Francis Vane had Captain Colthurst court-martialed for the murder […]
Karen Gillece was born in Dublin in 1974. Her novels are Seven Nights In Zaragoza (Dublin, Hodder Headline Ireland, 2005); Longshore Drift (Hodder Headline Ireland, 2006); My Glass Heart (Hodder Headline Ireland, 2007); and The Absent Wife (Hachette Books Ireland, 2008). Her short stories have appeared in Moments: Irish Women Writers In Aid Of The […]
Shauna Gilligan was born in Dublin in 1972. Her debut novel is Happiness Comes from Nowhere (London, Ward Wood, 2012). Other publications include Mantles (2021) and Fire (2024, both Dublin: Arlen House). She has received numerous awards for writing including the Cecil Day Lewis Literary Bursary for Literature (2015) and the Irish Writers Centre Jack Harte […]
Alan Gillis was born in Belfast in 1973. His collections are Somebody, Somewhere (Loughcrew, The Gallery Press, 2004), which was short-listed for the Irish Times Poetry Now Award and received the Rupert and Eithne Strong Award for best first collection; Hawks and Doves (The Gallery Press, 2007), which was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, and […]
Ray Givans was born in Portadown, Co Armagh, and grew up in Castlecaulfield, Co.Tyrone. His collection is Tolstoy in Love (Dublin, Dedalus Press, 2009), which was shortlisted for the Strong Award for best first collection by an Irish poet in 2010. A bilingual English-Italian version is published by Kolibris (Bologna, 2011). He has been awarded […]
Anthony Glavin was born in Boston in 1946 of Irish heritage. He has been editor of New Irish Writing (1987-88) and more latterly former Commissioning Editor of New Island Books. His novel is Nighthawk Alley (Dublin, New Island Books, 1997). Widely anthologized, his story collections are One For Sorrow (Dublin, Poolebeg, 1980); and The Draughtsman […]
Anthony Glavin was born in Dublin in 1945. His poems are collected as The Wrong Side of the Alps (Loughcrew, Co Meath, The Gallery Press, 1989). In 1987 he won the Patrick Kavanagh Award. He lived in Dublin where he taught in The Royal Irish Academy of Music. He died in 2006. Anthony Glavin at […]
Frank Golden was born in Dublin in 1957. His poetry collections are In Partial Settlement (Wiffle Press, New York); On Route to Leameneh (Dublin, Raven Arts Press, 1990); The Interior Act (Cliffs of Moher, Co Clare, Salmon Publishing, 1999); and In Daily Accord (Salmon Poetry, 2008). He has published one novel, The Two Women of […]
Oliver Goldsmith was born on November 10th, 1730. His birthplace is disputed but it is most probably Pallasmore, Co. Longford. At the age of eight he had a severe attack of smallpox which disfigured him for life. He received a B.A. degree in February 1749 from Trinity College Dublin, before he left Ireland in 1752 […]
Brendan Graham was born in Co. Tipperary in 1945. His novels are The Whitest Flower (London, HarperCollins, 1998); The Element of Fire (Harper Collins, 2001); and The Brightest Day, The Darkest Night (Harper Collins, 2005). The Whitest Flower was a number 2 bestseller in Ireland, and is translated into German as Die Irische Nacht (Berlin, […]
Mark Granier was born in London in 1957 and brought up in Dublin. His collections are airborne (Cliffs of Moher, Salmon Publishing, 2001); Skyroad (Salmon Publishing, 2007); and Fade Street (London, Salt Publishing, 2010). His awards include a first prize in the UK New Writer Poetry Competition, an Arts Council Bursary in 2002 and the […]
Robert Greacen was born in Derry in 1920. His poetry includes The Bird (1941); Northern Harvest, (Belfast, Derrick MacCord, 1944); One Recent Evening (1944); The Undying Day (London, The Falcon Press, 1948); A Garland for Captain Fox (Dublin, The Gallery Press, 1975); I, Brother Stephen (Dublin, St. Beuno’s Hand-Printed Limited Editions, 1978, illustrated Barbara Deane); […]
Jarlath Gregory grew up in Crossmaglen, Co Armagh. His novels are Snapshots (Dublin, Sitric Books, 2001); and G. A. A. Y: One Hundred Ways to Love a Beautiful Loser (Sitric Books, 2005). He lives in Dublin. Jarlath Gregory at Facebook Jarlath Gregory at The Lilliput Press Jarlath Gregory at Deviant Art Jarlath Gregory at The […]
Lady Gregory was born Isabella Augusta Persse in 1852 in Roxborough House, near Loughrea, Co. Galway. At twenty-eight she married Sir W. H. Gregory, then a sixty-three year-old widower, former governor of Ceylon and Trustee of the National Gallery and MP for Galway, and who had been responsible for measures which compounded the misery suffered […]
Eamon Grennan was born in Dublin in 1941. His poetry collections are Wildly for Days (Oldcastle, Co Meath, Gallery Press, 1983); What Light There Is (Gallery Press, 1987); So It Goes (Gallery Press, 1995); Selected and New Poems (Gallery Press, 2000); Still Life with Waterfall (Gallery Press, 2001); The Quick of It (Gallery Press, 2004); […]
Vona Groarke was born in Edgeworthstown, Co Longford, in 1964, and grew up on a farm outside Athlone. Her collections are Shale (Loughcrew, Co Meath, The Gallery Press, 1994); Other People’s Houses (The Gallery Press, 1999); Flight (The Gallery Press, 2002), which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize in 2002, and winner of the Michael […]
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