Ian Watson was born in Greenisland, Co. Antrim in 1946. His poetry collections are Kurzpass-Spiel (Bremen/Boston, Kellner Verlag, 2011), a German-language collection of poems and micro-prose on football; and Riverbank City (Hamburg, Blaupause Books, 2013). He has translated Heinrich Böll, Arne Rautenberg and Hans Meier into English and poems by Harry Clifton into German. Some […]
Drucilla Wall was born in Chicago and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her first collection is The Geese at the Gates (Cliffs of Moher, Salmon Poetry, 2011). She teaches poetry and essay writing, and Native American literature, at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Her awards include the Mari Sandoz Prairie Schooner Short Story Award; the Western […]
Eamonn Wall was born in Enniscorthy, Co Wexford in 1955. He has published two chapbooks, The Tame Goose (New York, The Hale Press, 1990); and Fire Escape (New York, Sunken-Isle Press, 1988). His poetry is collected as Dyckman – 200th Street (Cliffs of Moher, Co Clare, Salmon Publishing, 1994); Iron Mountain Road (Salmon Publishing 1997); […]
Mervyn Wall was born in Dublin in 1908. His main works include the novels The Unfortunate Fursey (London, the Pilot Press, 1946/New York, Crown Publishers, 1947); The Return of Fursey (London, The Pilot Press, 1948); Leaves for the Burning (London, Methuen, 1952/New York, Devin-Adair, 1952); No Trophies Raise (Metheun, 1956); Hermitage (Dublin, The Wolfhound Press, […]
William Wall was born in Cork in 1955. His poetry collections are Mathematics & Other Poems* (Collins Press 1997), which won The Patrick Kavanagh Award and the Listowel Writers’ Week Collection Prize; Fahrenheit Says Nothing To Me (Dublin, Dedalus Press, 2004); and Ghost Estate (Cliffs of Moher, Salmon Poetry, 2011). As Bill Wall, he has […]
Catherine Walsh was born in Dublin in 1964. Her poetry includes Macula (Dublin, Red Wheelbarrow Press, 1986); The Ca Pater Pillar Thing and More Besides (Dublin, hardPressed Poetry, 1986); Making Tents (hardPressed Poetry, 1987); Short Stories (UK, Twickenham and Wakefield, North & South, 1989); from Pitch (London, Form Books, 1993); Pitch (Durham, UK, Pig press, […]
Michael Walsh was born at Ben of Fore, Castlepollard, Co. Westmeath. His poetry collections are Brown Earth and Green ([with a foreword by Katherine Tynan] Dublin, The Talbot Press, 1929); The Heart Remembers Morning (The Talbot Press, 1931); Red on the Holly (Dublin, Colm O’Lochlainn at the Sign of the Three Candles, 1934); Walls in […]
Eugene Watters/Eoghan Ó Tuairisc was born in Ballinasloe, Co Galway in 1919. He received a Masters Degree in English Literature and Language from UCD. He served as an Officer in the Irish Army and worked as a primary teacher in Dublin until 1961, when he became a full time writer. After the death of his […]
Anthony Weir was born in 1941. His publications include Tide and Undertow (translations of poetry) (Belfast, Blackstaff Press, 1975); Early Ireland: A Field Guide (Blackstaff Press, 1980); Cinema of the Blind (poems) (Blackstaff Press,1981). He founded non-profit Dissident Editions in 1994 and self-published Dispatches from the War Against the World (1994); The Transcendental Hotel (1997), […]
Grace Wells was born in London in 1968. Her books for children include Gyrfalcon (Dublin, O’Brien Press, 2002), which won won the Eilis Dillon Best Newcomer Bisto Award and was also an International White Ravens’ Choice; and Ice Dreams (O’Brien Press, 2008). Her book One World Our World is a storybook for children in Ireland […]
David Wheatley was born in Dublin in 1970. His collections are Thirst (Loughcrew, The Gallery Press, 1997), which won The Rooney Prize in 1998; Misery Hill (The Gallery Press, 2000); Mocker (The Gallery Press, 2006); and A Nest on the Waves (The Gallery Press, 2010). Stream and Gliding Sun: A Wicklow Anthology, and I Am […]
Gerard Whelan was born in Enniscorthy, County Wexford. He is the author of several books for children and is a multiple award-winner. The Guns of Easter, his first novel, (Dublin, The O’Brien Press, 1996), won a Bisto Merit Award and the Eilis Dillon Award for first-time writers. Dream Invader was the overall winner of the […]
Victoria White was born in Dublin in 1962. Her collection of short stories, Raving Autumn, was published by Poolebeg, Dublin, in 1990. Her non-fiction includes Mother Ireland: Why Ireland Hates Motherhood (Dublin, Londubh Books, 2010). She lives in Dublin. Victoria White at Londubh Books Victoria White at The National Library of Ireland
Oscar Wilde was born in Westland Row, Dublin on October 16th, 1854 to an eminent surgeon, William Wilde and the famous nationalist poet, Lady Jane Wilde, known as Speranza (her Selected Poems were published in Dublin in 1900). He settled in London in 1879. In 1882 he embarked on a lecture tour of the United […]
Caroline Williams was born in Co. Clare in 1966. Her first novel is Pretending (Dublin, Penguin Ireland, 2006). In the 1990s, she was a founding member of the independent theatre company, Glasshouse Productions, and produced all their plays including new work by writers such as Clare Dowling, Emma Donoghue, Katy Hayes and Trudy Hayes. She […]
Niall Williams was born in Dublin in 1958. His novels are Four Letters of Love (London, Picador, 1997); As It Is In Heaven (Picador, 1999), short listed for the Irish Times Literature Prize; The Fall of Light (Picador, 2001); Boy in the World (London, Harpur Collins, 2007); John (London/New York, Bloomsbury, 2008); and History of […]
Robert McLiam Wilson was born in Belfast in 1964. His books include Eureka Street (London, Secker & Warburg, 1996); Ripley Bogle, (Belfast, The Blackstaff Press, 1989/London, André Deutsch, 1989) ; Manfred’s Pain (London, Pan Books /Picador 1992) and with Donavan Wylie, The Dispossessed, a book about poverty (London, Picador, 1992). Ripley Bogle won the Rooney […]
Joseph Woods was born in Co Louth in 1966. First published in Japan, his collections are Sailing to Hokkaido (Kent, UK, Worple Press, 2001); Bearings (Worple Press, 2005); Cargo (Dublin, Dedalus Press, 2010); and Ocean Letters (Dedalus Press, 2011). He was been awarded the Patrick Kavanagh Award in 2000. With Irene De Angelis he has […]
MacDara Woods was born in Dublin in 1942. His collections of poetry include Decimal D. Sec Drinks in a Bar in Marrakesh (Dublin, New Writers Press, 1970); Early Morning Matins (Dublin, The Gallery Press, 1973); Stopping the Lights in Ranelagh (Dublin, The Dedalus Press, 1987); Miz Moon (The Dedalus Press, 1988); The Hanged Man Was […]
Vincent Woods was born in Co. Leitrim in 1960. His plays include John Hughdy/Tom John (Galway, Druid Theatre Company, 1991); At the Black Pig’s Dyke (Druid Theatre Company, 1992); Song of the Yellow Bittern (Druid Theatre Company, 1994); Fontamara (adaptation from the novel by Ignazio Silone, Collins Barracks, Dublin, Vesuvius Theatre Company, 1998); and A […]
Enda Wyley was born in Dublin in 1966. Her collections are Eating Baby Jesus (Dublin, The Dedalus Press, 1993); Socrates In the Garden (The Dedalus Press, 1998); Poems for Breakfast (Dedalus, 2004); and To Wake to This (The Dedalus Press, 2009). She was poet in Residence in Melbourne University in 1996, having received The Vincent […]
Grace Wynne-Jones was born and brought up in Ireland and has also lived in Africa, the US and England. Her feature articles have appeared in many magazines and national papers in Ireland and in England, and her radio play Ebb Tide was broadcast on RTE 1. Her short stores have been published in magazines in […]
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