Angela Patten was born and grew up in Dun Laoghaire, County Dublin, and emigrated to the United States in 1977. Her poetry collections are Still Listening (Cliffs of Moher, Co Clare, Salmon Publishing, 1999); and Reliquaries (Salmon Publishing, 2007). Her most recent book is the memoir entitled High Tea at a Low Table: Stories from […]
Tom Paulin was born in Leeds in 1949 but grew up in Belfast. His poetry collections include A State Of Justice (London, Faber & Faber, 1977); The Strange Museum (Faber & Faber, 1980); Liberty Tree Faber & Faber, 1983); Fivemiletown, Faber & Faber, 1987); Walking A Line (Faber & Faber 1994); The Wind Dog (Faber […]
David Park was born in Belfast in 1954. His novels are The Healing (London, Jonathan Cape, 1992); The Rye Man (Jonathan Cape, 1994); Stone Kingdoms (London, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1996); The Big Snow (London, Bloomsbury, 2002); Swallowing the Sun (Bloomsbury, 2004); and The Truth Commissioner (Bloomsbury, 2008), for which he was awarded the 2009 Ewart–Biggs […]
Siobhán Parkinson was born in 1954 in Dublin but grew up in Galway and Donegal. Her books for children include The Leprechaun Who Wished He Wasn’t (O’Brien, 1993, reprinted 2003); Four Kids, Three Cats, Two Cows, One Witch (Maybe) (Dublin, O’Brien Press, 1998), which won a Bisto Merit Award; Sisters… No Way! (O’Brien Press, 1998), […]
James Stewart Parker was born in Belfast in 1941. While still in his teens, he contracted bone cancer and had a leg amputated. He was part of a group of young writers which included Seamus Heaney and Bernard MacLaverty in Queen’s University, Belfast. His stage plays include Spokesong (Dublin Theatre Festival, John Player Theatre, 1975); […]
Julie Parsons was born in New Zealand but grew up in Ireland from an early age. Her novels are Mary, Mary (London, MacMillan, 1998); Courtship Gift (MacMillan, 1999); Eager to Please (MacMillan, 2001); The Guilty Heart (MacMillan 2003); The Smoking Room (MacMillan, 2004); The Hourglass (MacMillan, 2006). A former producer with RTÉ radio and television, […]
Glenn Patterson was born in Belfast in 1961. His novels include Burning Your Own (London, Chatto & Windus, 1988); Fat Lad (Chatto & Windus, 1992); Black Night at Big Thunder Mountain (Chatto & Windus, 1995); The International (London, Anchor, 1999); Number 5 (London, Hamish Hamilton, 2003); That Which Was (Hamish Hamilton, 2004); The Third Party […]
Basil Payne was born in Dublin on June 23, 1923. His collections include Sunlight on a Square (Dublin, John Augustin,1961); Love in the Afternoon (Gill and MacMillan, Dublin, 1971); Another Kind of Optimism (Gill and MacMillan, 1974); and Voyage à Deux (Geneva, Perret-Gentil, 1974 [French translation by Chantal Béal, preface by Pierre Emmanuel of the […]
Paul Perry was born in Dublin in 1972. His collections are The Drowning of the Saints (The Cliffs of Moher, Co Clare, Salmon, 2003); The Orchid Keeper (Dublin, The Dedalus Press, 2006); The Last Falcon and Small Ordinance (The Dedalus Press, 2010); and Gunpowder Valentine: New and Selected Poems (The Dedalus Press, 2014). He has […]
Tom Phelan was born in Strahard, Mountmellick, County Laois, in 1940. His books are In the Season of the Daisies (Dublin, Lilliput 1993/New York, Four Walls, 1996/ Paris, Editions Balland, 1997) Iscariot (Kerry, Brandon 1995/ Munich, Franz Schneekluth Verlag, 1997); Derrycloney (Brandon, 1999); The Canal Bridge (Lilliput, 2005); and Nailer (Freeport, New York, Glanvil Press, […]
James Plunkett (James Plunkett Kelly) was born in Dublin in 1920. As well as fiction, he wrote radio and television features, and film scripts. Big Jim (Dublin, O’Donnell, 1955), on the life of the trade unionist Jim Larkin, was commissioned by Radio Éireann. His main work includes the short story collections The Trusting and the […]
Homan Potterton was born in 1946. His memoir of growing up on a farm in County Meath in the 1950s is Rathcormick: a Childhood Recalled (New Dublin, Island 2001, and London, Vintage 2004). Potterton People and Places: Three Centuries of an Irish Family, is a family history of the Pottertons in Ireland (Choice Books, 2006). […]
Suzanne Power was born in Dublin in 1968. Her novels are The Lost Souls’ Reunion (London, Picador, 2002); The Virgo Club (London, Hodder Lir, 2004); and Love and the Monroes (Dublin, Hodder Headline Ireland, 2005). Previously she has been a Fish Short Story competition winner. She lives in Dublin. Suzanne Power at Pan Macmillan Suzanne […]
J.F. Powers (James Farl Powers) was born on July 8th, 1917, in Jacksonville, Illinois, USA, and was married to the writer Betty Wahl. He published his first stories in The Catholic Worker and, as a pacifist, spent thirteen months in prison during World War II. According to his daughter Katherine A. Powers in an essay […]
Morag Prunty was born in 1964 to Irish parents and brought up in London. She moved to Ireland in 1990 to re-launch Irish Tatler. Her non-fiction includes the best-selling handbook for teenage girls, Boys (London, Picadilly Press, 1993). Her novels are Wild Cats & Colleens/Dancing with Mules (London, Pan MacMillan, 2001/New York, Harper Collins, 2001); […]
Deirdre Purcell was born in Dublin in 1945. A former Abbey actress, among her roles has been as Chrisine opposite Donal McCann in Drama at Inish; Miss Frost in The Ginger Man; and Pegeen in The Playboy of the Western World. Her novels include A Place of Stones (Dublin, Townhouse/London, Macmillan, 1991); Falling for a […]
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