Nick Laird was born in Cookstown, Co Tyrone, in 1975. His poetry collections are To A Fault (London, Faber and Faber, 2004); On Purpose (Faber and Faber, 2007); and Go Giants (Faber and Faber, 2013). His novels are Utterly Monkey (London, Fourth Estate, 2005); and Glover’s Mistake (Fourth Estate, 2010). He is the recipient of […]
Brian Langan was born in Dublin in 1969. His novel is Light in the Head (Dublin, Poolbeg, 1999). He works full-time as an editor for The Liffey Press, and has co-edited Whisperings, the anthology of the Dublin 15 Writers Group, of which he is a member. He lives in Dublin.
Mary Lavin was born in Massachusetts, USA, in 1912, but she lived in Ireland from 1921, at first in Athenry Co Galway, and later in Meath and Dublin. Her short story collections are Tales from Bective Bridge (Boston, Little, Brown, 1942; London, Michael Joseph, 1943; Dublin: Poolbeg Press, 1978; re-issued Dublin, Town and Country House, […]
James Lawless was born in Dublin. His novels are Peeling Oranges (Mullingar, Killynon House Books, 2007); For Love of Anna (New Generation, 2009); The Avenue (Galway, Wordsonthestreet, 2010); Finding Penelope (Stoney Stanton, UK, Indigo Dreams Publishing, 2012); and Knowing Women (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013. His poetry collection is Rus in Urbe (Tralee, Doghouse, 2012). […]
Ann Leahy grew up in Tipperary. Her debut collection The Woman Who Lived Her Live Backwards (Galway, Arlen House, 2008), won The Patrick Kavanagh Award. Her other awards include The Gerald Manley Hopkins Award, and the New Writers Award. She has also been short-listed for a Hennessey Award and the Hamish Canham Prize. She lives […]
Francis Ledwidge was born at Janeville, Slane, Co Meath in 1887 to a large and impoverished family, who nevertheless valued education, even after his father’s death when he was five, and Ledwidge published his first poems in the Drogheda Independent, a local newspaper, when he was fourteen. An active trade unionist, when he was twenty-four […]
Mary Leland was born in Cork in 1941. Her novels are The Killeen (London, Hamish Hamilton 1985); and Approaching Priests (London, Sinclair Stevenson 1991). She also published a collection of short stories entitled The Little Galloway Girls (London, Black Swan 1987). Her non-fiction includes Cork / Corcaigh: The Lie of the Land – a literary […]
Jessie Lendennie was born in Arkansas the United States and has lived in Ireland since 1981. Her prose poem, Daughter, was published by Salmon (Co Clare) and Signpost Press, Washington, in 1988 and was re-issued as Daughter & Other Poems (Galway, Salmon, 2001). Her non-fiction included Salmon Guide to Creative Writing in Ireland (Salmon Publishing, […]
Hugh Leonard (pseudonym of John Keyes Byrne) was born in 1926 and raised in Dalkey, County Dublin. His output is vast and complex, encompassing theatre, including adaptations; television, including Insurrection (RTÉ, 1966), and many adaptations; film, memoir, criticism and journalism. Included amongst his plays are The Big Birthday Suit (Dublin, The Abbey Theatre, 1956); A […]
June Levine was born in Dublin in 1931. She is the author of two best-selling books: Sisters, a personal history of the Irish feminist movement (Dublin, Ward River Press, 1985); and Lyn (with Lyn Madden) a story of prostitution (Dublin, The Women’s Press, 1988). Her novel is A Season of Weddings (Dublin, New Island Books, […]
Clive Staples Lewis was born in Belfast in 1898. His poetry includes Spirits in Bondage ([psued. Clive Hamilton,] 1919); Dymer (London, J. M. Dent/New York, E. P. Dutton & Co. 1926; republished 1950); Narrative Poems (London, ed. Walter Hooper, Geoffrey Bles, 1969); and Poems (London, ed. Walter Hooper, Geoffrey Bles, 1964, 1977). His autobiographical works […]
Brian Leyden was born in Roscommon in 1960. He has published a book of short stories, Departures (1992); and a novel, Death and Plenty (Dingle, Brandon, 1996). He has devised and performed a one-man stage show on W.B. Yeats called Experiments in Magic, and his RTÉ documentary, No Meadows in Manhattan, won a Jacobs Award […]
James Liddy was born in Dublin in 1934. His poetry publications include Esau, My Kingdom for a drink (Dublin, The Dolmen Press, 1962); In a Blue Smoke (The Dolmen Press, 1964); Blue Mountain (The Dolmen Press, 1968); A Life of Stephan Dedalus (San Francisco, White Rabbit Press, 1969); A Munster Song of Love and War […]
John Liddy was born in Youghal, Co Cork but grew up in Limerick. His collections are Boundaries (Jane Hunt/The Limerick Leader, 1974); The Angling Cot (Dublin, Beaver Row Press, 1991); Song of the Empty Cage (Belfast, Lapwing Press, 1997); Wine and Hope/Vino y Esperanza (Madrid, 1999); and The Well: New and Selected Poems (Limerick, The […]
David Lloyd was born in Dublin in 1955. His collections are Taropatch (Oakland, Jimmy’s House of Knowledge, 1985); Coupures (Dublin, hardPressed Poetry, 1987); Change of State (Berkeley, Cusp Books, 1993); Sill (Los Angeles, Cusp Books, 2006); and Vega (Los Angeles, Mind Made Books, 2009). They are collected as Arc & Sill (Bristol, Shearsman, 2012). As […]
Antonia Logue was born in Park, Co Derry, in 1972. Her novel, Shadow-box (London, Bloomsbury, 1998), won the 1999 Irish Times Literature Award for an Irish Novel. She has been named one of the (London) Observer’s 21 writers for the 21st century. She lives in Co Cork. Antonia Logue at The National Library of Ireland
Michael Longley was born in Belfast in 1939.Longley His books of poetry include No Continuing City (London, Macmillan, 1969, US Dufour Editions 1969); An Exploded View (London, Victor Gollancz, 1973), Man Lying on a Wall (Victor Gollancz, 1976); The Echo Gate (London, Secker and Warburg, 1979); Poems 1963-1983 (U.K., Salamander Press; Loughcrew, Ireland, The Gallery […]
Dave Lordan was born in Derby, England, in 1975, and grew up in Clonakilty in West Cork. In 2004 he was awarded an Arts Council bursary and in 2005 he won the Patrick Kavanagh Award for Poetry. His collections are The Boy in The Ring (Cliffs of Moher, Salmon Poetry, 2007), which won the Strong […]
Seán Lucy was born in India(?) in 1931. His first selection of poems was published in Five Irish Poets (Cork, Mercier Press, 1970). His solo collection is Unfinished Sequence (Dublin, Wolfhound Press, 1979). His critical work includes T.S. Eliot and the Idea of Tradition (1960). He has edited Irish Poets in English The Thomas Davis […]
Brian Lynch was born in Dublin in 1945. His novel is The Winner of Sorrow (Dublin, New Island Books, 2005), about the poet William Cowper (1731-1800). His poetry collections include Endsville (1967); No Die Cast (Dublin, New Writers Press, 1969); Outside the Pheasantry (Gorey, Funge Arts Centre, 1974); Perpetual Star (Dublin, Raven Arts Press, 1981); […]
Liam Lynch was born in Dublin in 1937. His plays include the plays Do Thrushes Sing in Birmingham? (Dublin, The Abbey Theatre, 1962); Soldier (The Abbey Theatre, 1969); Krieg (Dublin, The Project Arts Centre, 1982); Voids (Dublin, Lourdes Hall [Platform Theatre Group] 1982). Strange Dreams Unending was broadcast by RTÉ in 1974. His novels are […]
Paul Lynch was born in Limerick in 1977, and grew up in Donegal. His novels are Red Sky in Morning (London, Quercus, 2013/New York, Little Brown, 2013); and The Black Snow (Quercus, 2014). He was the chief film critic of The Sunday Tribune newspaper from 2007 to 2011, when the newspaper folded. He has written […]
Thomas Lynch is an essayist, poet and director of Lynch & Sons funeral home in Milford, Michigan, where he was born in 1948. His poetry collections are Skating With Heather Grace (New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1987); Grimalkin & Other Poems (London, Jonathan Cape, 1994); Still Life in Milford (Jonathan Cape, 1998/New York, W. W. […]
Seán Lysaght was born in 1957 and grew up in Limerick. In 1985 he was an award winner at the annual Patrick Kavanagh poetry festival. His collections are Noah’s Irish Ark (Dublin, The Dedalus Press, 1989); The Clare Island Survey (Loughcrew, The Gallery Press, 1991, which was nominated for The Irish Times/Aer Lingus poetry award) […]
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