Anne Fitzgerald was born in Dublin in 1965. Her poetry collections are Swimming Lessons (Wales, Stonebridge, 2001); The Map of Everything (Dublin, Fortyfoot Press, 2006); and Beyond the Sea (Cliffs of Moher, Salmon Poetry, 2012). She has edited, designed and produced four anthologies of young adults poetry, including The Colour of The World (Dublin, MET […]
Gabriel Fitzmaurice was born in Moyvane, Co Kerry, in 1952. A former Chair and Literary Advisor of Writers’ Week, the Writers’ Conference in Listowel, Co. Kerry, he is author of more than twenty books, including poetry in English and Irish, children’s verse in English and Irish, translations from the Irish, essays, and collections of songs […]
Janice Fitzpatrick Simmons was born in Boston in 1954. Her collections are Leaving America (Lapwing, 1992); Settler (Cliffs of Moher, Co Clare, Salmon Publishing, 1995); Starting at Purgatory (Salmon Publishing, 1999); The Bowspirit (Belfast, Lagan Press, 2005); and Saint Michael in Peril of the Sea (Salmon Poetry, 2009). A former Assistant Director of The Robert […]
Leontia Flynn was born in Belfast in 1974. She was awarded an Eric Gregory Award in 2001. Her collections are These Days (London, Jonathan Cape, 2004), which won the Forward Poetry Prize (Best Collection of the Year) in 2004, and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Award; Drives (Jonathan Cape, 2008); and Profit and Loss […]
Órfhlaith Foyle was born in Nigeria to Irish parents. Her novel is Belios (Dublin, The Lilliput Press, 2005), and her debut collection of stories is Somewhere in Minnesota (Galway, Arlen House, 2011). An anthology of her poetry and short stories was published as Revenge (Arlen House, 2005). Her first full collection of poetry is Red […]
Celia de Fréine is a poet, critic, dramatist and screenwriter, in Irish and English. A TV episode she wrote for the Irish-language TG4 drama serial Ros na Rún was shortlisted for 1998 Pan Celtic Film and TV Festival. Her poetry collections are Faoi Chabáistí is Ríonacha (Gallimh, Cló Iar-Chonnachta, 2001), which is accompanied by a […]
Tom French was born in Kilkenny in 1966. In 1999 he received a Bursary in Literature from The Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon, and his work was awarded the inaugural Ted McNulty Prize. His collections are Touching the Bones (Oldcastle, Co Meath, The Gallery Press, 2001), for which he was awarded the Forward Prize for First […]
Patrick Galvin was born in Cork in 1927. His poetry collections include Heart of Grace (London, Linden Press, 1957); Christ in London (Linden Press, 1960); The Wood-burners (Dublin, New Writers Press, 1973); Man on the Porch (London, Martin Brien & O’Keeffe, 1980); Madwoman of Cork (cassette recording); Folktales for the General (Dublin, Raven Arts Press, […]
Owen Gallagher was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1949 of Irish parents. His mother was from Leitrim, his father, Donegal. His collections are Sat Guru Snowman (UK, Peterloo Poets, 2001); and Tea with the Taliban (Middlesborough, UK, Smokestack Books, 2012) He received an award from the London Arts Board in 2002. He lives in London. […]
Alan Gillis was born in Belfast in 1973. His collections are Somebody, Somewhere (Loughcrew, The Gallery Press, 2004), which was short-listed for the Irish Times Poetry Now Award and received the Rupert and Eithne Strong Award for best first collection; Hawks and Doves (The Gallery Press, 2007), which was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, and […]
Ray Givans was born in Portadown, Co Armagh, and grew up in Castlecaulfield, Co.Tyrone. His collection is Tolstoy in Love (Dublin, Dedalus Press, 2009), which was shortlisted for the Strong Award for best first collection by an Irish poet in 2010. A bilingual English-Italian version is published by Kolibris (Bologna, 2011). He has been awarded […]
Anthony Glavin was born in Dublin in 1945. His poems are collected as The Wrong Side of the Alps (Loughcrew, Co Meath, The Gallery Press, 1989). In 1987 he won the Patrick Kavanagh Award. He lived in Dublin where he taught in The Royal Irish Academy of Music. He died in 2006. Anthony Glavin at […]
Frank Golden was born in Dublin in 1957. His poetry collections are In Partial Settlement (Wiffle Press, New York); On Route to Leameneh (Dublin, Raven Arts Press, 1990); The Interior Act (Cliffs of Moher, Co Clare, Salmon Publishing, 1999); and In Daily Accord (Salmon Poetry, 2008). He has published one novel, The Two Women of […]
Oliver Goldsmith was born on November 10th, 1730. His birthplace is disputed but it is most probably Pallasmore, Co. Longford. At the age of eight he had a severe attack of smallpox which disfigured him for life. He received a B.A. degree in February 1749 from Trinity College Dublin, before he left Ireland in 1752 […]
Mark Granier was born in London in 1957 and brought up in Dublin. His collections are airborne (Cliffs of Moher, Salmon Publishing, 2001); Skyroad (Salmon Publishing, 2007); and Fade Street (London, Salt Publishing, 2010). His awards include a first prize in the UK New Writer Poetry Competition, an Arts Council Bursary in 2002 and the […]
Robert Greacen was born in Derry in 1920. His poetry includes The Bird (1941); Northern Harvest, (Belfast, Derrick MacCord, 1944); One Recent Evening (1944); The Undying Day (London, The Falcon Press, 1948); A Garland for Captain Fox (Dublin, The Gallery Press, 1975); I, Brother Stephen (Dublin, St. Beuno’s Hand-Printed Limited Editions, 1978, illustrated Barbara Deane); […]
Eamon Grennan was born in Dublin in 1941. His poetry collections are Wildly for Days (Oldcastle, Co Meath, Gallery Press, 1983); What Light There Is (Gallery Press, 1987); So It Goes (Gallery Press, 1995); Selected and New Poems (Gallery Press, 2000); Still Life with Waterfall (Gallery Press, 2001); The Quick of It (Gallery Press, 2004); […]
Vona Groarke was born in Edgeworthstown, Co Longford, in 1964, and grew up on a farm outside Athlone. Her collections are Shale (Loughcrew, Co Meath, The Gallery Press, 1994); Other People’s Houses (The Gallery Press, 1999); Flight (The Gallery Press, 2002), which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize in 2002, and winner of the Michael […]
Davoren Hanna was born in Dublin in 1975. He published one collection, Not Common Speech (Dublin, Raven Arts Press, 1990). Amongst his awards are The Christy Brown Award, The British Spastics Society National Literary Award, The Welsh Academy Young Writers Competition and The Observer National Children’s Poetry Competition. He was the subject of an RTÉ […]
Kerry Hardie was born in Singapore in 1951, and grew up in County Down. Her poetry is collected as A Furious Place (Oldcastle, Co Meath, The Gallery Press, 1996); Cry for the Hot Belly (The Gallery Press, 2000); The Sky Didn’t Fall (The Gallery Press, 2003); The Silence Came Close (The Gallery Press, 2006); and […]
Maurice Harmon was born in 1930 in Co Dublin. Emeritus Professor of Anglo-Irish Literature at University College Dublin, he is a distinguished critic, biographer, editor, literary historian, and poet. His published academic work includes Seán Ó Faoláin: A Critical Study; (Notre Dame, IN, University of Notre Dame Press, 1966); The Poetry of Thomas Kinsella (Dublin, […]
James Harpur was born in 1956 of Irish-British descent. His poetry collections are A Vision of Comets (London, Anvil Press Poetry, 1993); The Monk’s Dream (Anvil Press Poetry, 1996); Oracle Bones (Anvil Press Poetry, 2001); The Dark Age (Anvil Press Poetry, 2007); and Angels and Harvesters (Anvil Press Poetry, 2012). He has also published his […]
Anne Le Marquand Hartigan was born and reared in England to a Catholic Irish mother and a Jersey father. She trained in Fine Art before moving to her mother’s family farm in Ireland with five small children and her farmer husband. Her collections are Long Tongue (Dublin, Beaver Row Press, 1982); Return Single (Beaver Row […]
Michael Hartnett /Micheál Ó hAirtnéide was born in Co Limerick in 1944. His collections include Anatomy of a Cliché (Dublin, Poetry Ireland Editions 4, The Dolmen Press, 1968); The Old Hag of Beare (a translation from the Irish, Dublin, New Writers Press, 1969); Selected Poems (New Writers Press, 1970); Tao (versions from the Chinese, Dublin, […]
Francis Harvey was born in Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh in 1925. His collections include In the Light on the Stones (Dublin, The Gallery Press, 1978); The Rainmakers (The Gallery Press, 1988); The Boa Island Janus (Dublin, The Dedalus Press, 1996); Making Space, New & Selected Poems (The Dedalus Press, 2000); and Collected Poems (with an introduction […]
Anne Haverty was born in Tipperary in 1959. Her novels are One Day as a Tiger (London, Chatto & Windus, 1997/New York, The Ecco Press, 1988); The Far Side of a Kiss (Chatto & Windus, 2000); and The Free and Easy (Chatto & Windus, 2006). Her poetry is collected as The Beauty of the Moon […]
Dermot Healy was born in Westmeath in 1947. His short stories are collected as Banished Misfortune (London, Allison & Busby, 1984). His novels are Fighting with Shadows (London, Allison & Busby 1984); A Goat’s Song (London, Collins Harvill, 1994); Sudden Times (London, The Harvill Press, 1999); and Long Time No See (London, Faber, 2011). His […]
Randolph Healy was born in Scotland in 1956, his family moving to Dublin eighteen months later. He has published 25 Poems (Dublin, The Beau Press, 1983); a pamphlet, Envelopes (UK, Cambridge Poetical Histories, 1996); and most recently a series of chapbooks, Rana Rana!(Bray, Wild Honey Press, 1997); Arbor Vitae ( Wild Honey Press, 1997); Flame […]
Seamus Heaney was born in Derry in 1939. His bibliography is vast, his work encompassing poetry, criticism, theatre and translation. His major poetry collections are Death of a Naturalist (London, Faber and Faber, 1966); Door Into the Dark (London, Faber and Faber, 1969); Wintering Out (London, Faber and Faber, 1972); North (London, Faber and Faber, […]
John Hewitt was born in Belfast in 1907, and educated at Methodist College and Queens University. From 1930 he worked in the Belfast Museum and Art Gallery and in 1957 he became the Art Director of the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum in Coventry. He returned to Belfast on his retirement in 1972. He published […]
Kevin Higgins was born in London in 1967, but grew up in Galway City. His collections are The Boy With No Face (The Cliffs of Moher, Co Clare, Salmon Poetry, 2005); Time Gentlemen, Please (Salmon Poetry, 2008); and Frightening New Furniture (Salmon Poetry, 2010). With his wife Susan Millar DuMars, he organises the Over The […]
Michael D. Higgins was born in Limerick in 1941, and reared in Newmarket-on-Fergus, Co. Clare. His collections are The Betrayal (Galway, Salmon Publishing, 1990 [illustrated Mick Mulcahy]); The Season of Fire (Tralee, Co. Kerry, Brandon, 1993 [illustrated Mick Mulcahy]); An Arid Season (Dublin, New Island Books, 2004); and New and Selected Poems (Dublin, Liberties Press, […]
Rita Ann Higgins was born in 1955 in Galway. Her collections are Goddess on the Mervue Bus (Galway, Salmon, 1986); Witch in the Bushes (Salmon, 1988); Goddess and Witch (Salmon, 1989); Philomena’s Revenge (Salmon, 1992); Higher Purchase (Cliffs of Moher, Co Clare, Salmon Publishing, 1996); An Awful Racket (Tarset, UK, Bloodaxe Books, 2001); Throw in […]
Eleanor Hooker’s debut collection is The Shadow Owner’s Companion (Dublin, The Dedalus Press, 2012). She lives in North Tipperary. Eleanor Hooker at Dedalus Press Eleanor Hooker interview at Women Rule Writer
Joseph Horgan was born in Birmingham, England, in 1964 of Irish parents. His poetry collections are Slipping Letters Beneath the Sea (Tralee, Doghouse, 2008); The Song at your Backdoor (Cork, Collins Press 2010), which was an RTE Book on One; and An Unscheduled Life (East Sussex, UK, [with the artist Brian Whelan] Agenda Editions, 2012). […]
John Hughes was born in Belfast in 1962. His collections are The Something in Particular (Loughcrew, Co Meath, The Gallery Press, 1986); Negotiations with the Chill Wind (The Gallery Press, 1991); The Devil Himself (The Gallery Press, 1996); and Fast Forward (Co Down, Lagan Press, 2003). He lived in New York City for three years, […]
Pearse Hutchinson was born in Glasgow of Irish parents in 1927 and reared in Dublin. A polyglot, he lived in Spain for almost ten years in the 1950s and 60s. His collections include Tongue Without Hands (Dublin, The Dolmen Press, 1963); Faoistin Bhacach (Baile Átha Cliath, An Clóchomhar, 1968); Expansions (The Dolmen Press, 1969); Le […]
Pat Ingoldsby was born in Dublin in 1942. Widely broadcast on TV, Radio, since the mid-1990s he has self-published and sold his work on the streets of Dublin, where he is a well-known figure. His poetry includes You’ve Just Finished Reading This Title (Blackrock, The Author, c. 1977); Rhyme Doesn’t With Reason; Up The Leg […]
Valentin Iremonger was born in Dublin in 1918. A career diplomat, he served as Irish Ambassador to Sweden, Norway, Finland, India and Luxembourg. With Samuel Beckett and Brian Coffey, he is credited with introducing modernism to Irish poetry. His poetry collections include One Recent Evening (London: Resurgam Books/The Favil Press, 1944 [with Robert Greacen and […]
Fred Johnston was born in Belfast in 1951. His collections are Measuring Angles (Connamara, Clo Iar-Chonnachta, 1993); True North (Cliffs of Moher, Co Clare, Salmon Poetry, 1997); Being Anywhere – New & Selected Poems (Belfast, Lagan Press, 2001); and The Neon Rose (Bristol, Bluechrome, 2007). His novels are Picture of a Girl in a Spanish […]
John Jordan was born in Dublin in 1930. His poetry collections are Patrician Stations (Dublin, New Writers Press, 1971); A Raft from Flotsam (Dublin, The Gallery Press, 1975); Blood and Stations ([verse and autobiographical prose] The Gallery Press, 1976); With Whom Did I Share the Crystal (Meath, St Beuno’s, 1980); Collected Poems ([ed. with preface […]
James Joyce was born in Dublin on February 2, 1882. His poetry includes Chamber Music (London, Elkin Mathews, 1907); Pomes Pennyeach (Paris, Shakespheare & Company, 1927); and Collected Poems (New York, The Black Sun Press, 1963). His collection of short stories is Dubliners (London, Grant Richards, 1914). His play, Exiles, was first performed in 1917 […]
Trevor Joyce was born in Dublin in 1947. Co-founder and co-editor (with Michael Smith) of New Writers’ Press in 1967, and founding editor of The Lace Curtain, his collections include Sole Glum Trek (Dublin, New Writers Press, 1967); Watches (NWP, 1969); Pentahedron (NWP, 1972); The Poems of Sweeney Peregrine (NWP, 1976); and stone floods (NWP, […]
Patrick Kavanagh was born in Inniskeen, County Monaghan in 1904. His poetry volumes are Ploughman & Other Poems (London, MacMillan Contemporary Poets Series, 1936); The Great Hunger (Dublin, The Cuala Press, 1942, Limited Edition); A Soul for Sale (MacMillan, 1947); Recent Poems (New York, The Peter Kavanagh Hand Press, 1958); Come Dance with Kitty Stobling […]
John B. Keane was born in Listowel, Co Kerry in 1928. He published forty-six works, but is best known for his plays which inlcude Sive; Sharon’s Grave; The Man from Clare; The Year of the Hiker; The Field (which was adapted as a film of the same name); Many Young Men of Twenty; Big Maggie; […]
Richard Kell was born in Youghal, Co Cork, in 1927. His poetry collections include Control Tower (London, Chatto & Windus, 1962); Differences (Chatto & Windus, 1969); Humours (Sunderland, Ceolfrith Press, 1978); The Broken Circle (Ceolfrith Press, 1981); In Praise of Warmth (Dublin, Dedalus Press, 1987); Rock and Water (Dedalus Press, 1993); Collected Poems (Belfast, Lagan […]
Conan Kennedy was born in Dublin. His novels are Here Be Ghosts (Dublin, O’Brien Press, 1982, eBook edition 2011); Ogulla Well (Killala, Co Mayo, Morrigan Books, 2002); The Colour of Her Eyes (eBook edition, 2011); The Snake Dancer of Sati Choura (eBook and printed editions Morrigan Books 2012). A Walk on The Southside, a memoir/love […]
Brendan Kennelly was born in Co Kerry in 1936. He has published over thirty books of poetry. His early poetry includes Cast a Cold Eye (with Rudi Holzapfel, Dublin, The Dolmen Press, 1959); The Rain, the Moon (with Rudi Holzapfel, The Dolmen Press, 1961); The Dark About Our Loves (with Rudi Holzapfel, Dublin, John Augustine […]
Kevin Kiely was born in Co Down in 1953. His novels are Quintesse (Dublin, Co-Op Books, 1982/New York St Martin’s Press, 1985); Mere Mortals (Dublin, Poolbeg Press, 1989); The Welkinn Complex (Florida, Number One Son Publishing, 2011). His poems are collected in the sequence Plainchant for a Sundering (Belfast, Lapwing Press, 2001); and Breakfast with […]
Ger Killeen was born in Limerick in 1960. His poetry collections are A Trace of Exaggeration (McKerns, 1985); Construction Ahead (Sparrow Press, [Sparrow Poverty Pamphlet Ser. : No. 56] 1989), A Wren (Bluestem Press, 1990), which won the Bluestem Award for Poetry, Lia A Léimfidh Thar Tonnta: A Stone That Will Jump Over The Waves […]
Noel King was born in 1964 in Tralee, Co Kerry. His poetry collection are Prophesying the Past (Cliffs of Moher, Salmon Poetry, 2010); and The Stern Wave (Salmon Poetry, 2013). He has been a prizewinner in the William Allingham Short Story Competition and is editor of Doghouse Books. He lives in Tralee. Noel King at […]
Thomas Kinsella was born in Dublin in 1928. His many collections of poems include Poems (Dublin, The Dolmen Press, 1956); Another September (Dolmen, 1958); Downstream (Dolmen, 1962); Butcher’s Dozen (Dublin, Peppercanister, 1972); Fifteen Dead (Dolmen, Peppercanister, 1979); The Good Fight (Peppercanister 1973); Nightwalker and Other Poems (Dolmen, Oxford, New York, Oxford University Press, 1968; New […]
Chuck Kruger, born in 1938, grew up in the Finger Lakes of upstate NY. His short story collections include Between A Rock (Cork, Bradshaw Books, 2005). His poetry collections are Sourcing (Bradshaw Books, 2008); and Island Alchemy (Bradshaw Books, 2010). His non-fiction includes Cape Clear Island Magic (Cork, The Collins Press, 1994) [reissued in 1995 […]
Anatoly Kudryavitsky (pen name of Antholy Kudryavitsky) was born in Moscow in 1954. His father was of Polish origin; his mother was a daughter of an Irishman from South Co. Mayo who died in Stalin’s Gulag. He is a member of the Russian Writers’ Union and Irish PEN, former President of the Russian Poetry Society […]
Nick Laird was born in Cookstown, Co Tyrone, in 1975. His poetry collections are To A Fault (London, Faber and Faber, 2004); On Purpose (Faber and Faber, 2007); and Go Giants (Faber and Faber, 2013). His novels are Utterly Monkey (London, Fourth Estate, 2005); and Glover’s Mistake (Fourth Estate, 2010). He is the recipient of […]
James Lawless was born in Dublin. His novels are Peeling Oranges (Mullingar, Killynon House Books, 2007); For Love of Anna (New Generation, 2009); The Avenue (Galway, Wordsonthestreet, 2010); Finding Penelope (Stoney Stanton, UK, Indigo Dreams Publishing, 2012); and Knowing Women (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013. His poetry collection is Rus in Urbe (Tralee, Doghouse, 2012). […]
Francis Ledwidge was born at Janeville, Slane, Co Meath in 1887 to a large and impoverished family, who nevertheless valued education, even after his father’s death when he was five, and Ledwidge published his first poems in the Drogheda Independent, a local newspaper, when he was fourteen. An active trade unionist, when he was twenty-four […]
Jessie Lendennie was born in Arkansas the United States and has lived in Ireland since 1981. Her prose poem, Daughter, was published by Salmon (Co Clare) and Signpost Press, Washington, in 1988 and was re-issued as Daughter & Other Poems (Galway, Salmon, 2001). Her non-fiction included Salmon Guide to Creative Writing in Ireland (Salmon Publishing, […]
Clive Staples Lewis was born in Belfast in 1898. His poetry includes Spirits in Bondage ([psued. Clive Hamilton,] 1919); Dymer (London, J. M. Dent/New York, E. P. Dutton & Co. 1926; republished 1950); Narrative Poems (London, ed. Walter Hooper, Geoffrey Bles, 1969); and Poems (London, ed. Walter Hooper, Geoffrey Bles, 1964, 1977). His autobiographical works […]
James Liddy was born in Dublin in 1934. His poetry publications include Esau, My Kingdom for a drink (Dublin, The Dolmen Press, 1962); In a Blue Smoke (The Dolmen Press, 1964); Blue Mountain (The Dolmen Press, 1968); A Life of Stephan Dedalus (San Francisco, White Rabbit Press, 1969); A Munster Song of Love and War […]
