Moya Cannon was born in Dunfanaghy, Co Donegal, in 1956. Her collections are Oar, for which she received The Brendan Behan Memorial Prize (Galway, Salmon Publishing, 1990); The Parchment Boat (Loughcrew, Co Meath, The Gallery Press, 1997); Carrying the Songs (Manchester, Carcanet Press, 2007); and Hands (Carcanet Press, 2011). She was a recipient of the […]
Ann Leahy grew up in Tipperary. Her debut collection The Woman Who Lived Her Live Backwards (Galway, Arlen House, 2008), won The Patrick Kavanagh Award. Her other awards include The Gerald Manley Hopkins Award, and the New Writers Award. She has also been short-listed for a Hennessey Award and the Hamish Canham Prize. She lives […]
Fergal Gaynor was born in Cork City in 1969, of Tipperary parents. He has published one collection of poetry, VIII Stepping Poems & other pieces (Miami University Press/Dublin, New Writers’ Press, 2011). Since 2000, when he co-founded the art interventionist group Art / not art, he has been involved in the arts, especially in his […]
David Lloyd was born in Dublin in 1955. His collections are Taropatch (Oakland, Jimmy’s House of Knowledge, 1985); Coupures (Dublin, hardPressed Poetry, 1987); Change of State (Berkeley, Cusp Books, 1993); Sill (Los Angeles, Cusp Books, 2006); and Vega (Los Angeles, Mind Made Books, 2009). They are collected as Arc & Sill (Bristol, Shearsman, 2012). As […]
Mícheál Ó hAodha was born in 1969. His poems are collected in the dual-language Survivor/Dúchas Dóchasach: Representations of the New Irish ([with paintings by Jean ‘Ryan’ Hakizimana] Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Cambridge Scholars Publications, 2007); and Slán le hÉirinn (Baile Átha Cliath, Coscéim, 2012). He writes fiction as well as poetry and has translated extensively from Irish, including […]
James Clarence Mangan was born in Dublin on May 1st, 1803. He was the son of a former hedge-school teacher who later became a grocer. Mangan was educated at a Jesuit school where he learned the rudiments of Latin, Spanish, French, and Italian, but when his father became bankrupt he was obliged to leave school […]
James McCabe was born in Dublin in 1966. His poems are collected as The White Battlefield of Silence (Dublin, The Dedalus Press, 1999). He has also published the schools anthology Inklings (Dublin, CJ Fallon, 1999). He was short-listed for the Hennessy Prize, and won the Scottish International Poetry Prize along with two Hawthornden Awards. He […]
Angela Patten was born and grew up in Dun Laoghaire, County Dublin, and emigrated to the United States in 1977. Her poetry collections are Still Listening (Cliffs of Moher, Co Clare, Salmon Publishing, 1999); and Reliquaries (Salmon Publishing, 2007). Her most recent book is the memoir entitled High Tea at a Low Table: Stories from […]
Dr. Emily Cullen was born in Dublin and grew up in Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim. Her poetry collections are No Vague Utopia (Galway, Ainnir Publishing, 2003); In Between Angels and Animals (Galway, Arlen House, 2013). In 2004 she was the national Programme Director of the Patrick Kavanagh Centenary celebrations and was selected for the Poetry Ireland […]
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 […]
Orna Ross was born Aine McCarthy in Waterford in 1960 and grew up in Co Wexford. Her novels are Lovers Hollow (Dublin, Penguin Ireland, 2004); and Dance in Time (Penguin Ireland, 2008), both of which have been reissued under the author’s independent imprint as After the Rising (Font Publications, 2011) and Before the Fall (Font […]
Patrick MacGill was born into a farming family near Glenties in the parish of Inishkeel, Co Donegal in 1889. When he was twelve years of age he went to the Hiring Fair in Strabane Co.Tyrone and hired with a farmer. When he had worked two years as a farm labourer he absconded to Scotland with […]
Andrew Jamison was born in County Down in 1986. He won the Templar pamphlet award in 2011. Selected as a UK Young Artist, he took part at the 2011 International Biennale in Rome. His Arts Council of Northern Ireland awards include the New York Residency (2011). Andrew Jamison at Gallery Press
Niamh Boyce is from Athy, Co Kildare. Her debut novel is The Herbalist (Dublin, Penguin Ireland, 2013). She was awarded the Hennessy XO New Irish Writer of the Year 2012 for her poem Kitty, and has been shortlisted for the Francis McManus Short Story competition 2011, the Hennessy Literary Awards 2010, the Molly Keane Award […]
Catherine Barry was born in 1963 in Dublin. Her novels are The House That Jack Built (London, Simon & Schuster, 2001); Null & Void (Simon & Schuster, 2002); and Skindeep (Simon & Schuster, 2004). Her non-fiction is Charlie & Me (Dublin, New Island books, 2011). She lives in Dublin. Catherine Barry on Facebook Catherine Barry: […]
John Kelly was born in Enniscorthy. His debut collection is Gathering the Dead in the Garden (Scalta Media, 2013). He lives and works in North County Dublin. John Kelly at Scalta Media
Maggie Breen was born in Monageer, Co Wexford. Her debut collection is Other Things I Didn’t Tell (Enniscorthy, Scalta Media, 2013). She divides her time between Sallins, Co. Kildare, and Dingle, Co. Kerry. Maggie Breen at Scalta Media
Madge Herron was born in Gleann na mBuachaill (Glenaboghill) near Fintown Co.Donegal on the 3rd September 1916. Involved in amateur dramatics she moved to Dublin in the 1930s where she joined the Abbey Theatre. Befriended by G.B Shaw, she was considered for the lead role in the London Production of Saint Joan. It was said […]
Monk Gibbon was born in Dublin in 1896. He studied in Oxford from 1915 but the following year year joined the British Army and served in France. On leave in Dublin in Easter, 1916, he was involved in the incident in the Irish Rising when Major Francis Vane had Captain Colthurst court-martialed for the murder […]
Marie MacSweeney was born in Dublin of Kerry parents. Her poetry chapbooks are Mother Cecily’s Music Room (Belfast, Lapwing, 2005); and Flying During the Hours of Darkness (Lapwing, 2009), which includes her translation of Caoineadh Airt Úi Laoghaire. Her short stories are collected as Our Ordinary World and Other Stories (Victoria, Canada, Trafford Publishing, 2004). […]
Declan Collinge was born in Dublin. His poetry collections are Sealgaireacht (Báile Átha Cliath, Clóchomhar Teo, 1982); Faoi Léigear (Báile Átha Cliath, Coiscéim, 1986); Fearful Symmetry (Dublin, Mentor Books 1990); Common Ground (Inisfail Press, 1996); Teachtaireacht Téacsa (Coiscéim 2007); and The Lonely Hush of Eve/ Tost Uaigneach na hOíche: Selected and New Poems/Rogha Dánta agus […]
Ciaran O’Driscoll was born in Kilkenny in 1943. His poetry collections include Gog and Magog (Galway, Salmon, 1987); The Poet and His Shadow (Dublin, Dedalus, 1990); Listening to Different Drummers (Dedalus, 1993); The Old Women of Magione (Dedalus, 1997); Moving On, Still There: New and Selected Poems (Dedalus, 2001); and Surreal Man (Brighton, UK, Pighog […]
Mark Roper was born in England in 1951, and moved to Ireland in 1980, His poetry collections include The Hen Ark (Calstock, Cornwall, Peterloo Poets 1990/ Galway, Salmon Publishing, 1991), which won the 1992 Aldeburgh Prize for best first collection; Catching The Light (Belfast, Lagan Press, 1997); The Home Fire (Craigavad, Co. Down, Abbey Press […]
Noel Duffy was born in Dublin in 1971. His poetry is collected as The Silence After (South Tipperary Arts Centre & Start Magazine, 2003); for which he was awarded the START Chapbook Prize for Poetry, and more recently the Firewords Poetry Award; In The Library Of Lost Objects (London, Ward Wood Publishing, 2011); and On […]
Seán Dunne was born in Waterford in 1956. His poetry is collected as Against the Storm (Mountrath, Dolmen Press in 1985); The Sheltered Nest (Oldcastle, County Meath, The Gallery Press, 1992); Time and the Island: Selected and New Poems (The Gallery Press, 1996); and Collected (The Gallery Press, 2005). He also published The Road to […]
Mary Noonan was born in London, but grew up in Cork. Her debut collection of poems is The Fado House (Dublin, Dedalus Press, 2012). In 2007, she was selected to take part in the Poetry Ireland Introductions series in Dublin and was invited to read at the Poetry Hearings festival in Berlin in 2009. The […]
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, […]
Doireann Ní Ghríofa was born in Galway in 1981, and grew up in County Clare. Her collections are Résheoid (Baile Átha Cliath, Coiscéim 2011); and Dúlasair (Coiscéim 2012). She publishes poetry in both Irish and English. She was among the prize-winners in the emerging writer category at the Oireachtas literary awards 2010, and was shortlisted […]
David McLoghlin was born in Dublin in 1972, and studied at University College Dublin, where he was awarded First-class honours for his Master’s thesis on the Spanish poet Luis Cernuda. His debut collection is Waiting for Saint Brendan and Other Poems (Cliffs of Moher, Salmon Poetry, 2012). He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from […]
Enda Coyle-Greene was born in Dublin. Her collections are Snow Negatives, (Dublin, Dedalus Press, 2007); and Map of the Last (Dedalus Press, 2013). She has been nominated for a Hennessy Literary Award for poetry and was shortlisted for a Francis MacManus Award for fiction. She won the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award in 2006. She lives […]
Patrick Kehoe was born in Enniscorthy, Co Wexford, in 1956. His debut collection is Its Words You Want (Cliffs of Moher, Salmon Poetry, 2011). His first poems were published by the late James Liddy in broadsheets and issues of The Gorey Detail. He is also a guitarist and songwriter. He lives in Dublin. Patrick Kehoe […]
Catherine Ann Cullen was born in Drogheda, Co Louth. Her poetry collections are A Bone in My Throat (Tralee, Doghouse Books, 2007); and Strange Familiar (Doghouse Books, 2013). Her verse-stories for childrens are The Magical, Mystical, Marvelous Coat ([illustrated by David Christiana] New York, Little Brown, 2001); and Thirsty Baby ([illustrated David M. McPhail] Little […]
Tom Paulin was born in Leeds in 1949 but grew up in Belfast. His poetry collections include A State Of Justice (London, Faber & Faber, 1977); The Strange Museum (Faber & Faber, 1980); Liberty Tree Faber & Faber, 1983); Fivemiletown, Faber & Faber, 1987); Walking A Line (Faber & Faber 1994); The Wind Dog (Faber […]
Seán Haldane was born in Sussex, England, of an Irish-Scots father and an English-German mother, in 1943. He grew up in Belfast. After university at Oxford and sojourns in Italy and Portugal he spent 25 years in Canada, first as co-publisher with the American poet Marnie Pomeroy at the Ladysmith Press (Quebec), then (having taken […]
Æ (George William Russell) was born in Lurgan, County Armagh, in 1867, and moved to Dublin when he was eleven. An active Irish nationalist, he edited the Irish Homestead (1904–23), where he published James Joyce’s The Sisters, and the Irish Statesman (1923–30), where he published Patrick Kavanagh’s early poems. He worked with Sir Horace Plunkett […]
Chris Agee was born in 1956 in San Francisco and grew up in Massachusetts, New York and Rhode Island. He attended Harvard University and since 1979 has lived in Ireland. His poetry collections are In the New Hampshire Woods (Dublin, The Dedalus Press, 1992), First Light (The Dedalus Press, 2003) and Next to Nothing (Cambridge, […]
Fergus Allen was born in Dublin in 1921. His collections are The Brown Parrots of Providencia (London, Faber & Faber, 1993); Who Goes There? (Faber & Faber, 1996); Mrs Power Looks Over the Bay (Faber & Faber, 1999); Gas Light & Coke (Dublin, Dedalus, 2006); and Before Troy (London, CB Editions, 2010). He has lived […]
Chris Arthur was born in Belfast in 1955, and lived for many years in Lisburn, County Antrim. His three books of essays are Irish Nocturnes (Aurora, Colorado, The Davies Group, 1999); Irish Willow (The Davies Group, 2002); and Irish Haiku (The Davies Group, 2005). Excerpts from Irish Nocturnes, Irish Willow and Irish Haiku can be […]
Michael Augustin was born in Lübeck, Germany in 1953. He has published several collections of poetry, including Der Apfel der Versuchung war ungespritzt (Eichborn 1983); Koslowsky (Nautilus/Nemo Press, 1987), translated as A Certain Koslowski, by Margitt Lehbert, and which was published in the UK by Littlewood Arc in 1992, with illustrations by Harmut Eïng; Ach […]
Ivy Bannister was born in New York City in 1951. Her short story collection is Magician (Dublin, Poolbeg Press, 1996). Many other stories have been published and broadcast, including What Big Teeth, filmed as Forgetting Aphrodite (2004). Her memoir is Blunt Trauma: After the Fall of Flight 111 (Dublin, Ashfield Press, 2005). Her plays have […]
Leland Bardwell was born in India of Irish parents in 1922 and was brought to Ireland at the age of two. Her collections of poetry are The Mad Cyclist (Dublin, New Writers’ Press, 1970); The Fly and the Bedbug (Dublin, Beaver Row Press, 1984); Dostoevsky’s Grave, New and Selected Poems (Dublin, The Dedalus Press, 1991); […]
Sebastian Barry was born in Dublin in 1955. His plays are The Pentagonal Dream (Damer Theatre 1986); Boss Grady’s Boys (Abbey Theatre, Peacock stage, Dublin 1988), which won the first BBC/Stewart Parker Award; Prayers of Sherkin (Abbey Theatre, Peacock stage, Dublin 1990, where he was Ansbacher Writer-in-Residence); White Woman Street (Bush Theatre, London 1992); The […]
Samuel Beckett was born in Foxrock, Co Dublin in 1906. His fiction includes More Pricks Than Kicks (London, Chatto and Windus, 1934); Murphy (London, G. Routledge, 1938); Molloy (Paris, Les Editions de Minuit 1951); English translation as Molloy by Samuel Beckett and Patrick Bowles. (Paris, Olympia Press, 1955); Malone Meurt (Paris, Les Editions de Minuit […]
Brendan Behan (known in Irish as Breandán Ó Beacháin) was born in Dublin in 1923. He served in Borstal (juvenile prison) for his activities in the IRA, and his experiences formed the background for his most important work. His plays are The Quare Fellow (Dublin, The Pike Theatre, 1954/London, Theatre Royal, 1956[the famous production by […]
Gerard Beirne was born in 1962. His novels are The Eskimo in the Net (London, Marion Boyars, 2003); and Turtle (Ottawa, Oberon Press, 2009). His poetry collections are Digging My Own Grave (Dublin, The Dedalus Press, 1996); and Games of Chance – A Gambler’s Manual (Ottawa, Oberon Press, 2011). His short story, Sightings of Bono, […]
Sara Berkeley was born in Dublin in 1967. Her collections are Penn (Dublin, Raven Arts Press/Canada, Thistledown Press, 1986); Home Movie Nights (Raven Arts Press/Thistledown Press, 1989); Facts About Water, New and Selected Poems (Dublin, New Island Books/Canada, Thistledown Press/Newcastle Upon Tyne, Bloodaxe Books, 1994); Strawberry Thief (Oldcastle, Co Meath, The Gallery Press, 2005); and […]
Ciaran Berry was born in Dublin in 1971 and grew up in Carna, County Galway and Falcarragh, County Donegal. His first collection is The Sphere Birds (Oldcastle, Co Meath, The Gallery Press/Southern Illinois State University Press, 2008), which won the Crab Orchard Series Award of Southern Illinois University Press. He now lives in New York […]
Sujata Bhatt was born in Ahmedabad, India in 1956, and spent her early years in Pune. She has translated Gujarati poetry into English for the Penguin anthology of Contemporary Indian Women Poets. Her collections are Brunizem (Manchester, The Carcanet Press, 1988), for which she received the Commonwealth Poetry Prize (Asia) and the Alice Hunt Bartlett […]
Eavan Boland was born in Dublin in 1944. Her collections of poetry include 23 Poems (Dublin, Gallagher, 1962); The War Horse (London, Gollancz,1975); In Her Own Image (Dublin, Arlen House, 1980); Night Feed (Arlen House, 1982); The Journey (Manchester, Carcanet, 1987); Selected Poems (Carcanet, 1989/Pennsylvania, U.S.A., W W Norton & Co Inc, 1991); Outside History […]
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 […]
Dermot Bolger was born in Finglas, North Dublin, in 1959. He founded Raven Arts Press, Dublin, where he was editor from 1979 to 1992. His novels are Night Shift, (Kerry, Brandon Books, 1982) ; The Woman’s Daughter, (Dublin, Raven Arts Press, 1987, revised and enlarged edition by Penguin, London 1991); The Journey Home (London,Viking, 1990/University […]
Pat Boran was born in Portlaoise in 1963. His poetry collections are The Unwound Clock (Dublin, The Dedalus Press, 1990), which won the Patrick Kavanagh Award; Familiar Things (Dedalus, 1993); The Shape of Water (Dedalus, 1996); As the Hand, the Glove (Dedalus, 2001); and New and Selected Poems, with an introduction by Dennis O’Driscoll (Cambridge, […]
Eva Bourke was born in Germany but has lived in Ireland for many years. Her poetry collections are Gonella (Galway, Salmon Publishing, 1985, with drawings by Jay Murphy); Litany for the Pig (Salmon Publishing, 1989); Spring in Henry Street (Dublin, Dedalus, 1996); Travels With Gandolfo (Dedalus, 2000); The Latitude of Naples (Dedalus, 2005); and Piano […]
Mary Branly was born in Sligo in 1962. Her collections are A Foot in the Tide (Kilcar, Co Donegal, the Summer Palace Press, 2002); and Martin Let Me Go (Summer Palace Press, 2009). She has also co-written Silk Kimono (Sligo, The Factory Performance Place, 1995); and co-ordinated Charlie Barley and all his friends, an anthology […]
Deirdre Brennan was born in Dublin in 1934 and brought up in Tipperary. Her collections are Reilig na mBan Rialta (Baile Átha Cliath, Coscéim, 1974); Scothanna Geala (Coscéim, 1989), which was a Poetry Ireland Choice of the Year; Thar Cholba na Mara (Coscéim1993); Ag Mealladh Réalta (Coiscéim 2000); The Hen Party (Belfast, Lapwing 2001); Beneath […]
James (Jimmy) Brennan was born in Dublin in 1944. He was a member of the Stanislavski Studio at Focus Theatre from 1967-1969. His novel is Seaman (Dublin, Irish Writers Co-Op,1978). His poems and stories have been published in Cyphers and the Irish Press. His one-act play was Blind Salad (Dublin, Focus Theatre, October 1979). He […]
Rory Brennan was born in Westport, Co Mayo in 1945. His collections are The Sea on Fire (Dublin, Dolmen, 1978); The Walking Wounded (Dublin, The Dedalus Press, 1985); and The Old in Raphallo (Dedalus, 1996). He won the Patrick Kavanagh Award for The Sea on Fire in 1978. A former director of Poetry Ireland, he […]
Heather Brett was born in Canada, and was raised in Co Antrim. Her collections are Abigail Brown (Galway, Salmon Poetry, 1991); The Touch-Maker (Monaghan, The Alternative Publishing Company, 1994/Toronto, Literary Publishing 1994); and Green Monkey,Travelling (Bristol, UK, Bluechrome, 2005). Heather Brett was named as Bluechrome Poet of the Year 2005. She was awarded the 1992 […]
Sonja Broderick was born in Listowel, Co Kerry, in 1971. Her first collection is The Things You Left Me With (Belfast, Lapwing Press, 2004). She lives in Listowel, Co Kerry. Sonja Broderick’s website Sonja Broderick at The National Library of Ireland
Christine Broe was born in Dublin in 1948. Her first collection is Solas Sólás (Dublin, Swan Press, 2003). Her poetry has received many awards, including the inaugural Brendan Kennelly/Sunday Tribune Prize in 2001, and the Premio Cittá di Olbia Award in 2002. She lives in Dublin. Christine Broe Interview at News4 with Glenda Cimino Christine […]
