Rosita Boland was born in Co Clare in 1965. Her poetry collections are Muscle Creek (Dublin, Raven Arts Press, 1991); and Dissecting the Heart (Oldcastle, Co Meath, The Gallery Press, 2003). She has also published two travel books, Sea Legs: Hitchhiking Around the Coast of Ireland Alone (Dublin, New Island Books, 1995); and A Secret […]
June Considine is the author of twelve books for pre-teens and young adults. These include the best-selling trilogy, When the Luvenders Came to Merrick Town, Luvenders at the Old Mill and Island of Luvenders. Her novel View from a Blind Bridge was short-listed for Bisto Award and was followed by The Glass Triangle. She also […]
Nuala O’Faolain was born in Dublin in 1940. Her autobiographical books are Are You Somebody? (Dublin, New Island Books, 1996/New York, Owl Books, Henry Holt and Company, 1996), which became an international bestseller; and its sequel Almost There: The Onward Journey of a Dublin Woman (Riverhead Books/London, Michael Joseph, 2003). Her novels are My Dream […]
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, […]
Thomas McGonigle was born of Donegal ancestry in Patchogue, Long Island, New York in 1944, and has had a deep connection with Ireland since 1964. His novels are Going to Patchogue (Champaign, IL, Dalkey Archive Press, 1992); and The Corpse Dream of N. Petkov (Dalkey Archive Press, 1987/Evanston, IL, Northwestern University Press, 2000). His novel […]
Belinda McKeon was born in Longford in 1979. Her first novel is Solace (London, Picador/New York, Scribner, 2011), which won the 2011 Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book of the Year prize at the Irish Book Awards, and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize 2012. Her plays are Drapes ([part of a trail of short, site-specific new […]
