Thomas Duddy was born Ramolin, near Shrule, Co. Mayo, but lived in Galway from the 1970s. His debut poetry collection is The Hiding Place (Galway/Dublin, Arlen House, 2011). His chapbook, The Small Hours, was published in 2006 by Happenstance Press of Fife, which will also publish, in the near future, his last volume of poetry, […]
John Moriarty was born in Kerry in 1938. Sometime gardener, lecturer and broadcaster, in 1997 he hosted the RTÉ television series, The Blackbird and the Bell. His books include Dreamtime (Dublin, The Lilliput Press, 1994); Nostos (The Lilliput Press, 2001); Turtle Was Gone a Long Time Volume One: Crossing the Kedron (The Lilliput Press, 1996); […]
Jean Iris Murdoch was born at 59 Blessington Street in Dublin, in 1919. Following the Irish War of Independence, the family moved to Chiswick, near London. In the latter years of the Second World War, she helped with the UN Rehabilitation and Relief Association in Belgium and Austria, before returning to England where she resumed […]
John O’Donohue was born in Co Clare in 1953. An ordained priest with a Ph.D in philosophical theology from the University of Tubingen, his books on philosophy and wisdom include Anam Cara: Spiritual Wisdom from the Celtic World (London, Bantam Press, 1997/New York, Cliff Street Books, 1997); Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning to […]
