Patrick Taylor was born in 1941 and brought up in Bangor, Co. Down. His works of fiction include a short story collection, Only Wounded: Ulster Stories(Key Porter, 1997). His novels are Pray for Us Sinners (Ontario, Insomniac Press, 2000); Now and in the Hour of Our Death (Insomniac Press, 2005): An Irish Country Doctor (New […]
Neville Thompson was born in Ballyfermot, Dublin, in 1961. His novels include loves Johnser OK? (Dublin, Poolbeg 1997); Two Birds/One Stoned (Dublin: Poolbeg 1999); Have Ye No Homes to Go To? (Poolebeg, 1999); Mama’s Boys (Mullingar, Killynon House Books, 2006); and A Simple Twist of Fate (Killynon House Books, 2007). His plays include Sex, Lies […]
Kate Thompson was born in Halifax, Yorkshire, in 1956. She has published one collection of poetry, There is Something (USA, The Signpost Press/Galway, Salmon Poetry, 1992); and three adult novels, Down Among the Gods (London, Virago Press, 1997); Thin Air (London, Sceptre, 1999); and An Act of Worship (Sceptre, 2000). She has published a number […]
Bill Tinley was born in Chicago in 1965, and moved with his family to Wicklow in 1970. He received the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award in 1996. His poems are collected as Grace (New Island Books, 2001). His doctoral thesis is on Derek Mahon. He lives in Maynooth, Co. Kildare. Bill Tinley on Facebook “Harmonies and […]
Colm Tóibín was born in Enniscorthy, Co Wexford in 1955. His novels are The South (London, Serpent’s Tail, 1990; New York, Viking, 1991); The Heather Blazing (London, Picador, 1992; New York, Viking, 1993); The Story of the Night (Picador 1997); The Blackwater Lightship (Picador, 1999) for which he was shortlisted for The Booker Prize, 1999; […]
Edward Toman was born in Northern Ireland, where he was one of the founders of the civil rights movement in the province in the late sixties. His novels are Shambles Corner (London, Flamingo, 1993); Dancing in Limbo (Flamingo, 1995); and The First Stone (ebook, 2011). He has lived in Zambia, The United States and London. […]
Honor Lilbush Wingfield Tracy was born in Suffolk, England, in 1913. Her novels include The Straight and Narrow Path (London, Methuen / New York, Random House 1958); A Number of Things (Methuen / Random House, 1960); A Season of Mists (Methuen / Random House, 1961); The First Day of Friday (Methuen / Random House, 1963); […]
Shaun Traynor was born in Aghadowey, County Derry, in 1941. His poetry collections include The Hardening Ground (London, Martin, Brian & O’Keeffe, 1974); and Images in Winter (Martin Brian & O’Keeffe, 1979). He has written several novels for children, including Hugo O’Huge (London, Metheun, 1984); The Children’s Giant (Metheun, 1989); The Giant’s Olympics (Metheun, 1987); […]
Peter Tremayne is the fiction-writing pseudonym of the Celtic scholar and author Peter Berresford Ellis. He was born in Coventry, Warwickshire, in England, on March 10, 1943. His father was a Cork-born journalist who started his career on the Cork Examiner. A prolific writer, who also publishes under the pseudonym Peter MacAlan, he has published […]
William Trevor (birth name William Trevor Cox) was born in Mitchelstown Co Cork in 1928. His novels include The Old Boys (London, The Bodley Head, 1964), which won The Hawthornden Prize; The Boarding House (The Bodley Head, 1965); The Love Department (The Bodley Head, 1966); Mrs Eckdorf in O’Neills Hotel (The Bodley Head, 1969); Miss […]
Matthew Tully was born to Irish parents in New York City in 1971 and spent his childhood in Carrickmacross before returning to the United States at age 13. His first novel is The Chimera Seed (Concord, Comfort Publishing, 2009). He lives in New Jersey. Matthew Tully’s website
Nesta Tuomey was born in Dublin. Her novels are Up Up and Away (Cork, Emperor Publishing, 1995); and Like One Of The Family (Dingle, Mount Eagle, 1999). Her plays, documentaries and short stories have been broadcast by BBC and RTÉ and her one-act play Whose Baby won the O.Z. Whitehead Play Competition in 1996. She […]
Una Troy was born in 1910 in Fermoy, Co Cork. She began her writing career under the name of Elizabeth Connor, and her novels from this period are Mount Prospect (London, Methuen, 1936/US, No House of Peace, 1937), which was banned in Ireland; and Dead Star’s Light (Methuen, 1938). In 1940 she adapted Mount Prospect […]
Katharine Tynan was born at Whitehall, Clondalkin, Co. Dublin in 1861. She published many poetry collections include Louise de la Valliere and Other Poems (London, Kegan, Paul Trench, & Co., 1885); Shamrocks (Kegan, Paul Trench, & Co., 1887); Ballads & Lyrics (Keegan, Paul, 1891); New Poems (London, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1911); The Flower of Peace: […]
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