Alannah Hopkin’s novels are A Joke Goes a Long Way in the Country (London, Hamish Hamilton/New York, Atheneum, 1982); and The Out-haul (London, Hamish Hamilton, 1985). Her non-fiction includes The Living Legend Of Saint Patrick (London, Grafton Books/New York, St Martin’s Press, 1989); Inside Cork (Cork, The Collins Press, 1991); Eating Scenery: West Cork, The […]
Madge Herron was born in Gleann na mBuachaill (Glenaboghill) near Fintown Co.Donegal on the 3rd September 1916. Involved in amateur dramatics she moved to Dublin in the 1930s where she joined the Abbey Theatre. Befriended by G.B Shaw, she was considered for the lead role in the London Production of Saint Joan. It was said […]
Anna Heussaff was born in 1957 and grew up in Dublin. Her two crime novels in Irish are Bás Tobann (Baile Áth Cliath, Cois Life, 2004) and Buille Marfach (Gaillimh, Cló Iar-Chonnacht, 2010). Her first crime novel in English is a version of Buille Marfach entitled Deadly Intent (London, Severn House, 2014) and published under […]
Alex Hijmans was born in Heemskerk in Holland In 1975. He moved to Ireland when he was twenty years old and learned Irish as part of his degree in Celtic Studies, before spending a twelve year period in Galway working in various Irish-language media. His main literary works to date have been written and published […]
Seán Haldane was born in Sussex, England, of an Irish-Scots father and an English-German mother, in 1943. He grew up in Belfast. After university at Oxford and sojourns in Italy and Portugal he spent 25 years in Canada, first as co-publisher with the American poet Marnie Pomeroy at the Ladysmith Press (Quebec), then (having taken […]
Hugo Hamilton was born in Dublin of Irish-German parentage. His novels are Surrogate City (London, Faber & Faber,1990); The Last Shot (Faber & Faber, 1991); The Love Test (Faber & Faber, 1995); Headbanger (London, Secker & Warburg, 1996); Sad Bastard (Secker & Warburg, 1998); Disguise (London, Fourth Estate, 2008); Hand in the Fire (Fourth Estate, […]
Although he claimed to have been born in Cork, Gerald Hanley was born in Liverpool in 1916, of an Irish family, but went to Africa when he was 19, where he joined the British army on the outbreak of the Second World War. He saw service in Burma (Myanmar), and his first book, Monsoon Victory […]
James Hanley claimed he was born in Dublin on 3 September 1901, but was actually born in Liverpool in 1897 to Irish parents. His novel Boy was the subject of an obscenity charge in Manchester in early 1936 – to which his publishers pleaded guilty and were heavily fined. The book was withdrawn and all […]
Davoren Hanna was born in Dublin in 1975. He published one collection, Not Common Speech (Dublin, Raven Arts Press, 1990). Amongst his awards are The Christy Brown Award, The British Spastics Society National Literary Award, The Welsh Academy Young Writers Competition and The Observer National Children’s Poetry Competition. He was the subject of an RTÉ […]
Kerry Hardie was born in Singapore in 1951, and grew up in County Down. Her poetry is collected as A Furious Place (Oldcastle, Co Meath, The Gallery Press, 1996); Cry for the Hot Belly (The Gallery Press, 2000); The Sky Didn’t Fall (The Gallery Press, 2003); The Silence Came Close (The Gallery Press, 2006); and […]
Michael Harding was born in Cavan in 1953. He has published two novels, Priests (Blackstaff Press, 1986), and The Trouble With Sarah Gullion (Blackstaff Press, 1988); and the novella Bird in the Snow (Dublin, The Lilliput Press, 2008). His plays are Strawboys (Dublin, The Abbey Theatre, Peacock stage, 1987); Una Pooka (The Peacock, 1989); Misogynist […]
Maurice Harmon was born in 1930 in Co Dublin. Emeritus Professor of Anglo-Irish Literature at University College Dublin, he is a distinguished critic, biographer, editor, literary historian, and poet. His published academic work includes Seán Ó Faoláin: A Critical Study; (Notre Dame, IN, University of Notre Dame Press, 1966); The Poetry of Thomas Kinsella (Dublin, […]
James Harpur was born in 1956 of Irish-British descent. His poetry collections are A Vision of Comets (London, Anvil Press Poetry, 1993); The Monk’s Dream (Anvil Press Poetry, 1996); Oracle Bones (Anvil Press Poetry, 2001); The Dark Age (Anvil Press Poetry, 2007); and Angels and Harvesters (Anvil Press Poetry, 2012). He has also published his […]
Shane Harrison was born in Dublin. He graduated from the National College of Art and Design in the early ‘80s and has worked in television, advertising and as a freelance designer. His stories are collected as Blues Before Dawn (Dublin, Poolbeg Press, 1992) and The Benefits of Tobacco (Dublin, Forty Foot Press, 2007) He lives […]
Josephine Hart was born in Mullingar, Co Westmeath in 1942. She moved to London in 1964, where she became the only woman director of Haymarket Publishing, and later founded Gallery Poets and West End Poetry Hour, which presents the works of major poets like Eliiot, Larken, Auden, Yeats, Plath, and read by actors such as […]
Jack Harte was born in Sligo in 1944. His short stories collections are Murphy in the Underworld (Dublin, Glendale, 1986); Birds and Other Tails (Dublin, The Dedalus Press, 1996); Birds and Selected Stories (Opheus, Sophia, Bulgaria, 2001); and From Under Gogol’s Nose (Dublin, Scotus Press, 2004), accompanied by the CD Lament for the Birds, Sligo […]
Lara Harte was born in Dublin in 1975. Her novels are First Time (London, Pheonix House, 1996); Losing It (Pheonix House, 1999); Wild Geese (Pheonix House [Weidenfeld & Nicholson], 2003); and Honour Bound (New Delhi, Banyan Tree Books, 2007). She lives in Dublin. Lara Harte’s Website Lara Harte at The National Library of Ireland
Anne Le Marquand Hartigan was born and reared in England to a Catholic Irish mother and a Jersey father. She trained in Fine Art before moving to her mother’s family farm in Ireland with five small children and her farmer husband. Her collections are Long Tongue (Dublin, Beaver Row Press, 1982); Return Single (Beaver Row […]
Michael Hartnett /Micheál Ó hAirtnéide was born in Co Limerick in 1944. His collections include Anatomy of a Cliché (Dublin, Poetry Ireland Editions 4, The Dolmen Press, 1968); The Old Hag of Beare (a translation from the Irish, Dublin, New Writers Press, 1969); Selected Poems (New Writers Press, 1970); Tao (versions from the Chinese, Dublin, […]
Francis Harvey was born in Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh in 1925. His collections include In the Light on the Stones (Dublin, The Gallery Press, 1978); The Rainmakers (The Gallery Press, 1988); The Boa Island Janus (Dublin, The Dedalus Press, 1996); Making Space, New & Selected Poems (The Dedalus Press, 2000); and Collected Poems (with an introduction […]
Norma Harrs was born in Belfast. She has published one novel, A Certain State of Mind (Toronto, Virgo Press, 1980). Her short story collections are Love Minus One & Other Stories (Toronto, Hounslow Press, l994); and Where Dreams Have Gone (Toronto, Simon & Pierre, l997). Her plays are Essential Conflict (Harbourfront, Toronto, November, l985); The […]
Anne Haverty was born in Tipperary in 1959. Her novels are One Day as a Tiger (London, Chatto & Windus, 1997/New York, The Ecco Press, 1988); The Far Side of a Kiss (Chatto & Windus, 2000); and The Free and Easy (Chatto & Windus, 2006). Her poetry is collected as The Beauty of the Moon […]
Katy Hayes was born in Dublin in 1965, She has has worked as a theatre director and playwright, and was a founder member and resident director with Glasshouse Productions from 1990 to 1995. Her plays are Playgirl (Dublin, The Abbey Theatre, Peacock Stage, 1995); and Vampirella and the Company of Wolves (adapted from two short […]
Trudy Hayes was born in Dublin in 1962. Her stories are anthologized in Virgins and Hyacinths (Dublin, The Attic Press) and Ireland’s Women – Writings Past and Present (Dublin, Gill & MacMillan, 1994). She is also the author of The Politics of Seduction (The Attic Press, 1990). Her plays include Out Of My Head, which […]
Carole Hayman* is well known both as an award-winning actress and theatre director. Her first book was a comic novel, All the Best, Kim, which was serialized on Woman’s Hour, and which was followed by Ladies of Letters. She devised and co-wrote The Refuge which was shown on Channel 4, and also created the BBC […]
Dermot Healy was born in Westmeath in 1947. His short stories are collected as Banished Misfortune (London, Allison & Busby, 1984). His novels are Fighting with Shadows (London, Allison & Busby 1984); A Goat’s Song (London, Collins Harvill, 1994); Sudden Times (London, The Harvill Press, 1999); and Long Time No See (London, Faber, 2011). His […]
Randolph Healy was born in Scotland in 1956, his family moving to Dublin eighteen months later. He has published 25 Poems (Dublin, The Beau Press, 1983); a pamphlet, Envelopes (UK, Cambridge Poetical Histories, 1996); and most recently a series of chapbooks, Rana Rana!(Bray, Wild Honey Press, 1997); Arbor Vitae ( Wild Honey Press, 1997); Flame […]
Seamus Heaney was born in Derry in 1939. His bibliography is vast, his work encompassing poetry, criticism, theatre and translation. His major poetry collections are Death of a Naturalist (London, Faber and Faber, 1966); Door Into the Dark (London, Faber and Faber, 1969); Wintering Out (London, Faber and Faber, 1972); North (London, Faber and Faber, […]
John Hewitt was born in Belfast in 1907, and educated at Methodist College and Queens University. From 1930 he worked in the Belfast Museum and Art Gallery and in 1957 he became the Art Director of the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum in Coventry. He returned to Belfast on his retirement in 1972. He published […]
Aidan Higgins was born in Celbridge, Co Kildare in 1927. He has written short stories, travel pieces, radio drama and novels. His novels include Langrishe Go Down (London, Calder & Boyars, 1966), which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Irish Academy of Letters Award, and was filmed for television with a screenplay […]
Kevin Higgins was born in London in 1967, but grew up in Galway City. His collections are The Boy With No Face (The Cliffs of Moher, Co Clare, Salmon Poetry, 2005); Time Gentlemen, Please (Salmon Poetry, 2008); and Frightening New Furniture (Salmon Poetry, 2010). With his wife Susan Millar DuMars, he organises the Over The […]
Michael D. Higgins was born in Limerick in 1941, and reared in Newmarket-on-Fergus, Co. Clare. His collections are The Betrayal (Galway, Salmon Publishing, 1990 [illustrated Mick Mulcahy]); The Season of Fire (Tralee, Co. Kerry, Brandon, 1993 [illustrated Mick Mulcahy]); An Arid Season (Dublin, New Island Books, 2004); and New and Selected Poems (Dublin, Liberties Press, […]
Rita Ann Higgins was born in 1955 in Galway. Her collections are Goddess on the Mervue Bus (Galway, Salmon, 1986); Witch in the Bushes (Salmon, 1988); Goddess and Witch (Salmon, 1989); Philomena’s Revenge (Salmon, 1992); Higher Purchase (Cliffs of Moher, Co Clare, Salmon Publishing, 1996); An Awful Racket (Tarset, UK, Bloodaxe Books, 2001); Throw in […]
Desmond Hogan was born in Ballinasloe, County Galway, in 1950. His novels are The Icon Maker (Dublin, Co-Op Books, 1976); The Leaves on Grey (London, Hamish Hamilton, 1980); A Curious Street (Hamish Hamilton, 1984); A New Shirt (Hamish Hamilton, 1986); and Farewell to Prague (London, Faber and Faber, 1995). His short story collections include Diamonds […]
Eleanor Hooker’s debut collection is The Shadow Owner’s Companion (Dublin, The Dedalus Press, 2012). She lives in North Tipperary. Eleanor Hooker at Dedalus Press Eleanor Hooker interview at Women Rule Writer
Margaret Hooks was born in Belfast. She has written extensively on the life and work of artists, among them Frida Kahlo, Tina Modotti and Edward James. Her writing has appeared in Vogue, The Guardian, Afterimage, Elle, Grand Street, The Observer magazine and The Photograph Collector. During the 1990s Hooks lived in Mexico City where she […]
Joseph Horgan was born in Birmingham, England, in 1964 of Irish parents. His poetry collections are Slipping Letters Beneath the Sea (Tralee, Doghouse, 2008); The Song at your Backdoor (Cork, Collins Press 2010), which was an RTE Book on One; and An Unscheduled Life (East Sussex, UK, [with the artist Brian Whelan] Agenda Editions, 2012). […]
Declan Hughes was born in Dublin. A long time writer-in-residence with the Rough Magic Theatre Company, his plays include I Can’t Get Started (Dublin Theatre Festival, 1990); Digging for Fire (Dublin Theatre Festival, 1991); New Morning; Hallowe’en Night; New Morning (London, Bush Theatre/Dublin, Rough Magic Theatre Company, 1993); Twenty Grand (Dublin, The Abbey Theatre, 1998); […]
John Hughes was born in Belfast in 1962. His collections are The Something in Particular (Loughcrew, Co Meath, The Gallery Press, 1986); Negotiations with the Chill Wind (The Gallery Press, 1991); The Devil Himself (The Gallery Press, 1996); and Fast Forward (Co Down, Lagan Press, 2003). He lived in New York City for three years, […]
Pearse Hutchinson was born in Glasgow of Irish parents in 1927 and reared in Dublin. A polyglot, he lived in Spain for almost ten years in the 1950s and 60s. His collections include Tongue Without Hands (Dublin, The Dolmen Press, 1963); Faoistin Bhacach (Baile Átha Cliath, An Clóchomhar, 1968); Expansions (The Dolmen Press, 1969); Le […]
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