Deirdre Madden was born in 1960 in County Antrim. Her novels include Hidden Symptoms (London, Faber & Faber, 1988; USA, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1987); The Birds of the Innocent Wood (Faber & Faber, 1988); Remembering Light and Stone (Faber & Faber 1992); Nothing is Black (Faber & Faber, 1994); One by One in the Darkness […]
Ed Madden was born in Newport, Arkansas, in 1963. He now teaches at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, SC. His first book of poetry, Signals (Columbia, SC, USC Press, 2008), won the 2007 South Carolina Poetry Book Prize. His work has been included in the Notre Dame Book of Irish American Poetry: From […]
Heno Magee was born in Dublin in 1939. His plays include I’m Getting Out of This Kip (Dublin, The Peacock, Abbey Theatre, 1972); Hatchet (The Peacock, The Abbey Theatre, 1972); and Red Biddy (The Peacock, The Abbey Theatre, 1974). His books include Hatchet (Dublin, The Gallery Press/Newark, Proscenium, 1978) Both Hatchet and I’m Getting Out […]
Aisling Maguire was born in Dublin in 1958. Her short fiction has appeared in several anthologies, including Raven Introductions 4 (Dublin, Raven Arts Press, 1986); The Dolmen Book of Short Stories (Mountrath, 1986); Volumes One and Two of The Blackstaff Book of Short Stories (Belfast, 1988 and 1991); and Figures in a Landscape: Writing from […]
John Maher was born in Dublin in 1954. His stories are collected as The Coast of Malabar (Dublin, O’Brien Press, 1998). His novels as John Maher are The Luckpenny (Dingle, Brandon / Mount Eagle Publications, 2007); and Rondo: The memoirs of Dr Josef Divonne, Late of 2me Lyon, Lower Europe (Roscrea, The Pilgrim Press, 2011). […]
Derek Mahon was born in Belfast in 1941. His poetry collections are Night-Crossing (UK, Oxford University Press, 1968); Lives (OUP,1972); The Snow Party (OUP, 1975); Poems 1962-1978 (OUP, 1979); Courtyards in Delft (OUP, 1981); The Hunt By Night (OUP, 1982); Antarctica (Oldcastle, Co Meath, Gallery Books, 1985); Selected Poems (Oldcastle, Co Meath, The Gallery Press, […]
Martin Malone was born in Dublin. His novels are US (Dublin, Poolebeg, 2000); After Kafra (Poolebeg, 2001); The Broken Cedar (London, Scribner, 2003); and Moore’s Bridge (Dublin, New Island Books, 2008). His short stories are collected as The Mango War and Other Stories (New Island Books, 2009). His short stories have been published and broadcast […]
Mary Malone was born in Cork. Her novels are Love Match (Dublin, Dodder Books, 2006); All You Need Is Love (Dodder Books, 2007); Never Tear Us Apart (Dublin, Poolebeg Press, 2009); and Love is the Reason (Poolebeg Press, 2010). She lives in Cork. Mary Malone’s Website Mary Malone at The National Library of Ireland
Aoife Mannix was born in Stockholm of Irish parents, and grew up in Dublin, Ottawa and New York. A former editor for the BBC’s Holby City, she has written drama documentaries for Radio 4. Her poetry collections are The Trick of Foreign Words (London, Tall Lighthouse, 2002); The Elephant in the Corner (Tall Lighthouse, 2005); […]
Mary Manning (also known as Mary Manning Howe) was born in Dublin in 1905 and went to drama school in London when she was sixteen. After returning to Ireland she attended the Abbey Theatre drama school under Sarah Allgood, and acted in the Abbey and the Gate in the early 1930s. Her plays are Youth’s […]
David Marcus was born in Cork in 1924. With Terence Smith and SJ White, he edited Irish Writing from 1946-54. He also edited Poetry Ireland, from 1948-54. He moved to London in 1954. On his return to Ireland he edited the seminal New Irish Writing from 1968-1998 in the Irish Press, Dublin, publishing and/or encouraging […]
Emer Martin was born in Dublin in 1968. Her novels are Breakfast In Babylon (Dublin, Wolfhound, 1995/New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1997); More Bread Or I’ll Appear (New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1999/London, Alison & Busby, 2000) ; and Baby Zero (Dingle, Brandon, 2007). Breakfast In Babylon won The Kerry Ingredients Book of the Year 1996 at […]
Aidan Mathews (var. Aidan Carl Mathews) was born in 1956 in Dublin. His poetry collections include Windfalls (Dublin, The Dolmen Press, 1977); Minding Ruth (Loughcrew, The Gallery Press, 1983); and According to the Small Hours (London, Jonathan Cape, 1998). His plays are The Diamond Body (Project Theatre, Dubin); Entrance, Exit (The Peacock Theatre, Dublin); and […]
Tom Mathews was born in Dublin in 1952. His poetry collections are The Owl and the Pussycat (Dublin, Dedalus Press, 2009); and No Return Game (Dedalus Press, 2013). His novel is Levon (Dublin, Ward River Press, 1984). After working in advertising he studied Fine Art at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin. […]
Caitlín Maude was born in Casla in the Connemara Gaeltacht (Irish-speaking area) in 1942. Her poetry collections include Caitlín Maude, Dánta, ed. Ciarán Ó Coigligh (Baile Átha Cliath, Coiscéim, 1984); Caitlín Maude (Coiscéim, 1988); and Caitlín Maude: file (Bari, Italy, edizioni dal sud, and Coiscéim, 1985). Her poetry and sean nós singing, for which she […]
Hugh Maxton (pseudonym of W.J. McCormack) was born near Aughrim in Co Wicklow in 1947. He lived intermittently in Hungary over a period of ten years, and has published translations into English of poems by Agnes Nemes Nagy, Sándor Wéöres, and Endre Ady. His poetry as Hugh Maxton includes Stones (Dublin, Allen Figgis, 1970); The […]
Máighréad Medbh was born in Newcastlewest, Co Limerick, in 1959. Her collections are The Making of a Pagan (Belfast, Blackstaff Press, 1990); Tenant (The Cliffs of Moher, Salmon Poetry, 1999); and When the Air Inhales You (Galway, Arlen House, 2009). Well known as a performer of her work, which is also included in ¡Divas! (Arlen […]
Paula Meehan was born in Dublin in 1955. Her poetry collections include Return and No Blame (Dublin, Beaver Row, 1984); Reading the Sky (Beaver Row, 1986); The Man Who Was Marked by Winter (Oldcastle, Co Meath, The Gallery Press, 1991 – reprinted 1992, 1994 and 1999), which was shortlisted for the Irish Times/Aer Lingus Irish […]
O.R. Melling (pseud. of Geraldine Valerie Whelan) aka Orla Melling, was born in Bray, Co Wicklow, but her family emigrated to Toronto when she was a child. Her books for young adults include The Druid’s Tune (Viking Penguin, Canada, UK, USA, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, 1983); The Singing Stone (Viking Penguin, Canada & USA, 1986); […]
Cormac Millar is the pen name of Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin, who was born in Cork in 1950 and teaches Italian at Trinity College Dublin. Apart from his academic publications, he is a literary translator and crime novelist. His novels are An Irish Solution (Dublin, Penguin Ireland, 2004); and The Grounds (Penguin Ireland, 2006). He lives […]
Susan Millar DuMars was born in Philadelphia in 1966. The first full collection of her poetry is Big Pink Umbrella (Cliffs of Moher, Salmon Poetry, 2008); and Dreams for Breakfast (Salmon Poetry, 2010). Her short stories have been published as American Girls (Belfast, Lapwing, 2007). In 2005 she received an Irish Arts Council Bursary for […]
Billy Mills was born in Dublin in 1954. His publications include Genesis and Home (hardPressed Poetry, 1985); On First Looking into Lorine Niedecker (hardPressed Poetry 1986); A Small Love Song (Red Wheelbarrow Press, 1986 – folded broadsheet); Triple Helix (hardPressed Poetry 1987); Letters from Barcelona (Dedalus 1990); Properties Of Stone (Writers Forum, London 1996); 5 […]
Lia Mills was born in Dublin. Her novels are Another Alice (Dublin, Poolbeg, 1996); Nothing Simple (Dublin, Penguin Ireland, 2005); and Fallen (Penguin Ireland, 2014). As well as critical articles and short stories, she has also published In Your Face: One Woman’s Encounter with Cancer, Doctors, Nurses, Machines, Family, Friends, and a Few Enemies (Penguin […]
Geraldine Mills was born in Galway. Her poetry collections are Unearthing Your Own (Cork, Bradshaw Books, 2001; Toil the Dark Harvest (Cork, Bradshaw Books, 2004); The Weight of Feathers (Galway, Arlen House, 2009); and An Urgency Of Stars (Arlen House, 2009). Her short story collections are Lick of the Lizard (Arlen House, 2006); and Weight […]
Sam Millar was born in Belfast in 1955. He novels are Dark Souls (Galway, Wynkin deWorde, 2003); Redemption Factory (Dingle, Brandon / Mount Eagle Publications, 2005/New York, Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2006); Bloodstorm (Brandon, 2008); and The Darkness of Bones (Brandon, 2006). His autobiography is On The Brinks (Wynkin de Worde, 2003). A winner of the […]
Geraldine Mitchell was born in Dublin and lived for many years in France, Algeria and Spain. Her first collection of poems is World Without Maps (Galway, Arlen House, 2011). Other publications include two novels for young people, Welcoming the French (Dublin, Attic Press, 1992); and Escape to the West (Attic Press 1994); and a biography […]
Gary Mitchell was born in Rathcoole, North Belfast in 1965. In 1990 his first radio play won a BBC Radio 4 Young Playwrights Festival Award, and in 1995 won the Stewart Parker Award. In 1998, In A Little World of Our Own won the Irish Times Theatre Award for best new play and was performed […]
Judith Mok was born in Bergen in the Netherlands. A distinguished classical singer and recording artist, her poetry includes Sterkwater Ambo (De Prom,1985); Materiaal Ambo (De Prom, 1991); Het Feestmaal (Amsterdam, Meulenhoff, 1997); and Gods of Babel (Cliffs of Moher, Co Clare, Salmon Poetry, 2011). Her novels are Argelozen in het Circus (Bussum, Netherlands, Thoth, […]
Frances Molloy was born in Derry in 1947. She left school at fifteen and was a nun for a time, before moving to Lancaster, England. She published one novel, No Mate for the Magpie (London, Virago, 1985), before returning to Ireland. Her short stories are collected as Women Are the Scourge of the Earth: Collected […]
M.J. Molloy was born in Co Galway in 1917. Nine of his plays premiered at the Abbey Theatre, one in the Gaeity Theatre, and one at the John Player Theatre, all in Dublin. Three plays were produced in London, three on Broadway, New York, and many were broadcast, televised and published. He was working on […]
Noel Monahan was born in Granard, Co Longford. His collections are Opposite Walls (Galway, Salmon Poetry, 1991); Snowfire (Salmon Poetry, 1995); Curse of the Birds (Cliffs of Moher, Co Clare, Salmon Publishing, 2001); The Funeral Game (Salmon Publishing, 2004); and Where the Wind Sleeps: New and Selected Poems (Salmon Publishing,2014). In 2001 he won the […]
Sean Monaghan was born in Dublin in 1970. His novels are Plus Ultra (Dublin, Poolbeg Press, 2000) and Planned Accidents (Poolbeg Press, 2001). He lives in Dublin. Sean Monaghan at The National Library of Ireland
John Montague was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1929 and reared on the family farm in Co Tyrone. His poetry includes Forms of Exile (1958); Poisoned Lands (Dublin, The Dolmen Press, 1961, 1977); A Chosen Light (1967); Tides (The Dolmen Press, 1971); (The Rough Field (Dolmen, 1972); A Slow Dance (Dolmen, 1975); The Great […]
Mary Montague was born in Enniskillen in 1964, reared in Ederney, Co Fermanagh. and studied Genetics and Zoology at Queen’s University, Belfast. Her collections are Black Wolf on a White Plain (Kilcar, Donegal, Summer Palace Press, 2001); and Tribe (Dublin, The Dedalus Press, 2008). She is currently living and working in Lancaster, UK. Mary Montague […]
Martin Mooney was born in Belfast 1964. His collections include Grub (Belfast, Blackstaff Press, 1993), which won the 1994 Brendan Behan Memorial Award; and Rasputin and his Children (Dublin, Blackwater Press, 2000, republished 2003 by Belfast, Lagan Press); and Blue Lamp Disco (Lagan Press, 2003). He is currently Development Officer for the Creative Writers’ Network […]
Alan Jude Moore was born in Dublin in 1973. His collections are Black State Cars (Cliffs of Moher, Salmon Poetry, 2004); Lost Republics (Salmon Poetry, 2008); Strasbourg (Salmon Poetry, 2010); and Zinger (Salmon Poetry, 2013). As well as being a poet, his fiction has been twice short-listed for the Hennessy Literary Awards. Translations of his […]
Alan Moore was born in 1960 in Dublin. His collections are Opia (London, Anvil Press, 1986), which was a Poetry Book Society Choice; and How Now! (Anvil Press, 2010). He is also a crime novelist, teacher, business adviser and the author of several professional books. He lives in Dublin. Alan Moore at Anvil Press Alan […]
Brian Moore was born in Belfast in 1921. He wrote several early novels under the pseudonyms Bernard Mara and Michael Byan, including Wreath for a Redhead (reprinted as Sailor’s Leave, 1951); The Executioners (1951); French for Murder (1954); A Bullet for My Lady (1955); This Gun for Gloria (1956); Intent to Kill (1956); and Murder […]
George Augustus Moore was born on February 24, 1852 in County Mayo. His collections of stories include In Single Strictness (London, Heinemann, 1922/ New York, Boni & Liveright., 1922); Celibates, London (Walter Scott/ New York, Macmillan, 1895); and The Untilled Field (London, T Fisher Unwin, 1903/Philadelphia, Lippincott). An t-Ur Gort (Dublin, Sealy, Bryers and Walker, […]
Stephen Moran was born in Dublin in 1954. His first book is a short story collection, The London Silence (Pretend Genius Press, 2004). He is a contributing editor to online journals Sloe Wine and The Willesden Herald. He lives in London. Stephen Moran’s Blog Interview at Author Trek
Tom Morgan was born in Belfast in 1943. His collections are The Rat-Diviner (Dublin, Beaver Row Press, 1987); Nan of the Falls Rd Curfew (Beaver Row Press, 1990), which was nominated for the Irish Times/Aer Lingus Awards; In Queen Mary’s Gardens (Galway, Salmon Publishing,1991); and Ballintrillick in the Light of Ben Whiskin (Lagan Press, 2006). […]
John Moriarty was born in Kerry in 1938. Sometime gardener, lecturer and broadcaster, in 1997 he hosted the RTÉ television series, The Blackbird and the Bell. His books include Dreamtime (Dublin, The Lilliput Press, 1994); Nostos (The Lilliput Press, 2001); Turtle Was Gone a Long Time Volume One: Crossing the Kedron (The Lilliput Press, 1996); […]
Sinéad Moriarty was born in Dublin. Her novels are Baby Trail (Dublin, Penguin Ireland, 2004/New York, Atria, 2005), which has been translated into twenty languages; A Perfect Match (Penguin Ireland, 2005/New York, Washington Square Press, US title, The Right Fit, 2006); From Here to Maternity; and In My Sister’s Shoes (Dublin, Penguin Ireland, 2008). She […]
Mary Morrissy was born in Dublin in 1957. She has published one collection of short stories, A Lazy Eye (London, Jonathan Cape/ New York, Scribner, 1993). Her novels are Mother of Pearl (Scribner, 1995/Jonathan Cape, 1996); The Pretender (Jonathan Cape, 2000); and The Rising of Bella Casey (Dublin, Brandon, 2013). She won a Hennessy Award […]
Sinéad Morrissey was born in Portadown in 1972. Her collections are There Was Fire in Vancouver (Manchester, Carcanet Press, 1996); Between Here and There (Carcanet, 2002); The State of the Prisons (Carcanet, 2005); Through the Square Window (Carcanet, 2009); and Parallax (Carcanet, 2013), for which she was awarded the T.S. Eliot Prize. In 1990, she […]
Danny Morrison was born in Belfast 1953. His novels are West Belfast (Cork, Mercier Press,1989); On The Back Of The Swallow (Mercier Press, 1994); and The Wrong Man (Mercier Press, 1997). His non-fiction includes Then The Walls Came Down (Mercier Press, 1999); and Troubles (published in Germany under that title, and in Spain as El […]
Gina Moxley was born in Cork where she studied painting at the Crawford School of Art. Her plays are Danti-Dan (Dublin, The Project/London, Hampstead Theatre, 1994, Rough Magic Theatre Company); and Dog House, which was specially commissioned, along with Liz Lochhead’s Cuba, by the Royal National Theatre (UK) for the BT National Connections Scheme for […]
Helena Mulkerns was born in Dublin but has lived abroad for much of her life. Her last posting was in Kabul with the United Nations Mission in Afghanistan in 2007. She was nominated for the Sunday Tribune Hennessy Literary Awards in 1991. She has published a total of fifteen short stories since then, and has […]
Val Mulkerns was born in Dublin in 1925. Her novels include The Time Outwork (London, Chatto and Windus, 1951/New York,The Devin-Adair Company, 1952); A Peacock Cry (London, Hodder, 1954); The Summerhouse (London, John Murray, 1984); and Very Like a Whale (Murray, 1986). includes the short story collections Antiquities (London, Deutch, 1978); An Idle Woman (Dublin, […]
Pat Mullan was born in County Derry in 1939. His book of poetry and other writings, Childhood Hills, was published by Barnes & Noble/iUniverse (USA, 2000). His thriller novel, The Circle of Sodom, was published in the USA in 2002 and Blood Red Square (LBF Books, 2005). He lives in Connemara, Co Galway. Pat Mullan’s […]
Paul Muldoon was born in Co Armagh in 1951. His main works are New Weather (London: Faber & Faber, 1973); Mules (Faber & Faber and Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Wake Forest University Press, 1977); Immram (Dublin, Gallery Press, 1980); Why Brownlee Left (London: Faber/Wake Forest, 1980) ; Out of Siberia (Gallery Press, 1982); Quoof (Faber/Wake Forest, […]
Jean Iris Murdoch was born at 59 Blessington Street in Dublin, in 1919. Following the Irish War of Independence, the family moved to Chiswick, near London. In the latter years of the Second World War, she helped with the UN Rehabilitation and Relief Association in Belgium and Austria, before returning to England where she resumed […]
Aidan Murphy was born in Cork in 1952. His poetry collections are The Restless Factor (Dublin, Raven Arts Press, 1985); The Way the Money Goes (Raven Arts Press/London, Allison & Busby, 1987) which was a UK Poetry Book Society Recommendation; Small Sky, Big Change (Raven Arts Press, 1989); Stark Naked Blues (Dublin, New Island Books, […]
Dervla Murphy was born in Lismore, Co Waterford, in 1931. Her published works include Full Tilt. Ireland to India with a Bicycle (London, John Murray 1965); Tibetan Foothold (John Murray, 1966); The Waiting Land: A Spell in Nepal (London, John Murray/New York, Trans Atlantic Arts, 1967); In Ethiopia with a Mule (John Murray, 1968); On […]
Gerry Murphy was born in Cork City in 1952. His collections are A Small Fat Boy Walking Backwards (Cork, Commons Press, 1988, Three Spires Press, 1992); Rio de la Plata and All That (Dublin, Dedalus, 1993); The Empy Quarter (Dedalus, 1995); Extracts from the Lost Log Book of Christopher Columbus (Dedalus, 1999); Torso of an […]
Jimmy Murphy was born in Dublin. His stage plays include Brothers of the Brush (Dublin, The Peacock, Dublin Theatre Festival 1993), which was awarded best new Irish play; A Picture of Paradise (The Peacock, 1997); The Muesli Belt (Dublin, The Abbey Theatre, 2000); Aceldama (1998), and The Kings of the Kilburn High Road (Waterford, Red […]
Marian Murphy was born in Limerick and grew up in Dublin. Her novels are Take 2 (Dublin, Poolbeg, 2000); Millions! (Poolbeg, 2001); and Making It Home (Poolbeg, 2003). She lives in Wicklow. Marian Murphy at The National Library of Ireland
Michael Murphy was born in Liverpool in 1965. His poetry collections are After Attila (Nottingham, Shoestring Press, 1998), Elsewhere (Shoestring Press, 2003), and Allotments (Shoestring Press, 2008.) In 2001 he won the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize, awarded by Poetry Review to the New Poet of the Year, and his poems are included in The New Irish […]
Paul Murphy was born in Belfast in 1965. He has published one collection, In the Luxembourg Gardens (Salzburg, Poetry Salzburg, 1992), and T.S. Eliot’s Postmodernist Complaint (Brisbane, PostPressed), a book a book on TS Eliot and Jacques Lacan. Also an artist, he is presently living in Germany. Paul Murphy’s book on TS Eliot and Jacques […]
Peter Murphy was born in Enniscorthy, Co Wexford, 1968 His novels are John the Revelator (London, Faber & Faber/New York, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009), which was shortlisted for the Kerry Group Fiction Prize, and The Costa First Novel Award; and Shall We Gather at the River (Faber & Faber, 2013). At the age of 17, […]
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