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 […]
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 […]
