John Liddy was born in Youghal, Co Cork but grew up in Limerick. His collections are Boundaries (Jane Hunt/The Limerick Leader, 1974); The Angling Cot (Dublin, Beaver Row Press, 1991); Song of the Empty Cage (Belfast, Lapwing Press, 1997); Wine and Hope/Vino y Esperanza (Madrid, 1999); and The Well: New and Selected Poems (Limerick, The […]
Michael Longley was born in Belfast in 1939.Longley His books of poetry include No Continuing City (London, Macmillan, 1969, US Dufour Editions 1969); An Exploded View (London, Victor Gollancz, 1973), Man Lying on a Wall (Victor Gollancz, 1976); The Echo Gate (London, Secker and Warburg, 1979); Poems 1963-1983 (U.K., Salamander Press; Loughcrew, Ireland, The Gallery […]
Dave Lordan was born in Derby, England, in 1975, and grew up in Clonakilty in West Cork. In 2004 he was awarded an Arts Council bursary and in 2005 he won the Patrick Kavanagh Award for Poetry. His collections are The Boy in The Ring (Cliffs of Moher, Salmon Poetry, 2007), which won the Strong […]
Seán Lucy was born in India(?) in 1931. His first selection of poems was published in Five Irish Poets (Cork, Mercier Press, 1970). His solo collection is Unfinished Sequence (Dublin, Wolfhound Press, 1979). His critical work includes T.S. Eliot and the Idea of Tradition (1960). He has edited Irish Poets in English The Thomas Davis […]
Brian Lynch was born in Dublin in 1945. His novel is The Winner of Sorrow (Dublin, New Island Books, 2005), about the poet William Cowper (1731-1800). His poetry collections include Endsville (1967); No Die Cast (Dublin, New Writers Press, 1969); Outside the Pheasantry (Gorey, Funge Arts Centre, 1974); Perpetual Star (Dublin, Raven Arts Press, 1981); […]
Thomas Lynch is an essayist, poet and director of Lynch & Sons funeral home in Milford, Michigan, where he was born in 1948. His poetry collections are Skating With Heather Grace (New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1987); Grimalkin & Other Poems (London, Jonathan Cape, 1994); Still Life in Milford (Jonathan Cape, 1998/New York, W. W. […]
Seán Lysaght was born in 1957 and grew up in Limerick. In 1985 he was an award winner at the annual Patrick Kavanagh poetry festival. His collections are Noah’s Irish Ark (Dublin, The Dedalus Press, 1989); The Clare Island Survey (Loughcrew, The Gallery Press, 1991, which was nominated for The Irish Times/Aer Lingus poetry award) […]
Thomas MacGreevy was born in Tarbert, Co. Kerry, in 1893. His poetry collections include Poems (London, Heinemann, 1934 [ reprinted New York, The Viking Press, 1934]); Collected Poems edited by Thomas Dillon Redshaw (Dublin, New Writers Press, 1971, foreword by Samuel Beckett [reissued by the Belaqua Series, an imprint of Raven Arts Press, in association […]
Tom MacIntyre was born in Cavan in 1931. A dual-language writer, his poetry collections include Blood Relations: Versions of Gaelic Poems of the Seventeeth and Eighteenth Centuries (Dublin, New Writers’ Press, 1972); I Bailed Out at Ardee (Dublin, Dedalus Press, 1987); Fleur-du-Lit (Dublin, The Dedalus Press, 1994); A Glance Will Tell You and A Dream […]
(Frederick) Louis MacNeice was born in Belfast in 1907, brought up in Carrickfergus, Co. Antrim and educated in England. He studied Classics and Philosophy at Oxford and both of these subjects informed his poetry. He was known as a translator, literary critic, playwright, autobiographer, BBC producer and feature writer as well as poet. His poetry […]
John McAuliffe was born in 1973 and grew up in Listowel, County Kerry. His collections are A Better Life (Loughcrew, Co Meath, The Gallery Press, 2002), shortlisted for a Forward Prize; Next Door (The Gallery Press, 2007); and Of All Places (The Gallery Press, 2011), a Poetry Book Society recommendation. In 2000 he won the […]
James J. McAuley was born in Dublin in 1936. His first collection was Observations, published in 1960. Since then his collections have included A New Address (Dublin,The Dolmen Press,1965); Draft Balance Sheet (The Dolmen Press,1978): After The Blizzard (University of Missouri Press, 1975); Recital (Dolmen Press, 1975); Hone And Away; The Exile’s Recurring Nightmare; The […]
Kathleen McCracken was born in Dundalk, Ontario, in 1960. Her collections include Blue Light, Bay and College (Newcastle, Ontario, Penumbra Press, 1991), which was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award for Poetry in 1992; A Geography of Souls (Saskatoon, Thistledown Press, 2002); Mooncalves (Toronto, Exile Editions, 2007); and Tattoo Land (Exile Editions, 2009). She has […]
Eamonn McGrath was born in Wexford in 1929. His novels are Honour Thy Father (Dublin, Figgis,1970 / New York, Herder & Herder, 1972 (as The Clay Grew Tall) [reissued Belfast, The Blackstaff Press,1990]); The Charnel House (The Blackstaff Press, 1990/US, Dufour Editions, 1990); and The Fish in the Stone (The Blackstaff Press, 1994). Both Honour […]
Joan McBreen was born in Sligo. Her poetry collections are The Wind Beyond The Wall (Oregon, USA, Story Line Press, 1990); A Walled Garden in Moylough (Story Line Press, 1995 /The Cliffs of Moher, Co Clare, Salmon Publishing, 1995); Winter in the Eye, New & Selected Poems (Salmon Publishing, 2003); The Long Light on the […]
Catherine Phil MacCarthy was born in 1954 in Crecora, Co. Limerick. Her collections are This Hour of the Tide (The Cliffs of Moher, Clare, Salmon Poetry,1994); The Blue Globe, (Belfast, The Blackstaff Press, 1998); Suntrap (The Blackstaff Press, 2007); and The Invisible Threshold (Dublin, The Dedalus Press, 2012). Her first novel is One Room an […]
Thomas McCarthy was born in Cappoquin, Co Waterford in 1954. His poetry collections nclude The First Convention ( Dublin, The Dolmen Press, 1978); The Sorrow-Garden (London, Anvil Press Poetry, 1981); The Non-Aligned Storyteller (Anvil Press Poetry, 1984); Seven Winters in Paris (Anvil Press Poetry and Dublin, Dedalus, 1989); The Lost Province (Anvil Press Poetry 1996); […]
Terry McDonagh was born in Cill Aodáin, Kiltimagh, Co Mayo in 1946. His plays include The Dark Side of a Dream; Anything for a Fiver; I wanted to bring you flowers (translated as Ich kann das alles erklären); Eternity Under Lucifer the First; and Children of the Whip. His poetry collections are The Road Out […]
Peter McDonald was born in Belfast in 1962. His collections are Biting the Wax (Newcastle upon Tyne [now Tarset, Northumberland]Bloodaxe Books, 1989); Adam’s Dream (Bloodaxe, 1996); Pastorals (Manchester, Carcanet, 2004); The House of Clay (Carcanet, 2007); and Collected Poems (Carcanet, 2013). His academic works include Louis MacNeice: The Poet in his Contexts (Oxford, Clarendon Press, […]
Hugh McFadden was born in Derry. His collections are City of Mirrors (Dublin, Beaver Row Press, 1985); Pieces of Time (Belfast, Lapwing Press, 2004); Selected Poems: Elegies and Epiphanies (Belfast, Lagan Press, 2005); and Empire of Shadows (Cliffs of Moher, Salmon Poetry, 2012). He is literary executor of the estate of John Jordan, and has […]
Roy McFadden was born in Belfast in 1921 and was educated at Queen’s University Belfast. He thereafter worked in the legal profession. His first poetry pamplet was Russian Summer (Dublin, Gayfied, 1941). His first major publication, Three New Poets (Essex, Grey Walls Press, 1942), was shared with Alex Comfort and Ian Serraillier. His subsequent collections […]
Afric McGlinchey was born in Ireland. Her debut collection is The Lucky Star of Hidden Things (Cliffs of Moher, Salmon Poetry, 2012). She grew up in Southern Africa, and received degrees from Rhodes University and the University of Cape Town, where she was tutored by the Nobel prize-winner, JM Coetzee. She has also lived in […]
Iggy McGovern was born in Coleraine. His collections are The King of Suburbia (Dublin, Dedalus Press, 2005); and Safe House (Dedalus Press, 2010). He is the recipient of the McCrae Literary Award, the Hennessy Literary Award for poetry, and The Glen Dimplex Poetry Award, 2006. He is Associate Professor of Physics at TCD, and lives […]
Medbh McGuckian was born in Belfast in 1950. Her collections of poetry include The Flower Master (1982, Oxford University Press, republished by Loughcrew, The Gallery Press, 1993); Venus and the Rain (Oxford, 1984, a revised edition published by Loughcrew, The Gallery Press, 1994); On Ballycastle Beach (Oxford 1988); Marconi’s Cottage (The Gallery Press, 1991); Captain […]
Frank McGuinness was born in Buncrana, Co Donegal, in 1953. His plays include The Factory Girls (1982); Baglady/Ladybag (1985); Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme (Dublin, The Abbey Theatre, 1985); Innocence (1986); Carthaginians (1988); Mary and Lizzie (Stratford-upon-Avon, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, 1989); The Bread Man (Dublin, The Gate Theatre, 1990); Someone Who’ll […]
Ethna McKiernan is a Minnesota writer with strong Irish connections, including a year’s stay in Dublin as a child and over 50 trips back since. Her collections are Caravan (Dublin, Dedalus/USA, Midwest Villages & Voices, 1989); and The One Who Swears You Can’t Start Over (Cliffs of Moher, Co Clare, Salmon Publishing, 2002). A recipient […]
Nigel McLoughlin was born in Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh, in 1968. His collections are At The Waters’ Clearing (Flambard Press/Black Mountain Press, 2001); Songs for No Voices (Belfast, Lagan Press Poetry, 2004); Blood (Bristol, Bluechrome, 2005); Dissonances (Bluechrome 2007); and Chora New & Selected Poems (Derbyshire, Templar Poetry, 2009). He is co-editor of Breaking The Skin: […]
Ted McNulty, was born in New York, of Irish parents from counties Cavan and Clare. A one-time news reporter and university lecturer, he began writing in his fifties. He spent the latter part of his life in Dublin with fellow poet Shiela O’Hagan. His two collections are Rough Landings (Cliffs of Moher, Salmon Poetry, 1992); […]
George McWhirter was born in Belfast in 1939 and left to live in Spain in 1965. His poetry collections include Catalan Poems (Ottawa, Oberon Press, 1971), which shared the Commonwealth Prize for Poetry with Chinua Achebe in 1972; Queen of the Sea (Oberon Press, 1976); The Island Man ( Oberon Press, 1981); Fire Before Dark […]
Ed Madden was born in Newport, Arkansas, in 1963. He now teaches at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, SC. His first book of poetry, Signals (Columbia, SC, USC Press, 2008), won the 2007 South Carolina Poetry Book Prize. His work has been included in the Notre Dame Book of Irish American Poetry: From […]
Derek Mahon was born in Belfast in 1941. His poetry collections are Night-Crossing (UK, Oxford University Press, 1968); Lives (OUP,1972); The Snow Party (OUP, 1975); Poems 1962-1978 (OUP, 1979); Courtyards in Delft (OUP, 1981); The Hunt By Night (OUP, 1982); Antarctica (Oldcastle, Co Meath, Gallery Books, 1985); Selected Poems (Oldcastle, Co Meath, The Gallery Press, […]
Aoife Mannix was born in Stockholm of Irish parents, and grew up in Dublin, Ottawa and New York. A former editor for the BBC’s Holby City, she has written drama documentaries for Radio 4. Her poetry collections are The Trick of Foreign Words (London, Tall Lighthouse, 2002); The Elephant in the Corner (Tall Lighthouse, 2005); […]
Aidan Mathews (var. Aidan Carl Mathews) was born in 1956 in Dublin. His poetry collections include Windfalls (Dublin, The Dolmen Press, 1977); Minding Ruth (Loughcrew, The Gallery Press, 1983); and According to the Small Hours (London, Jonathan Cape, 1998). His plays are The Diamond Body (Project Theatre, Dubin); Entrance, Exit (The Peacock Theatre, Dublin); and […]
Tom Mathews was born in Dublin in 1952. His poetry collections are The Owl and the Pussycat (Dublin, Dedalus Press, 2009); and No Return Game (Dedalus Press, 2013). His novel is Levon (Dublin, Ward River Press, 1984). After working in advertising he studied Fine Art at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin. […]
Hugh Maxton (pseudonym of W.J. McCormack) was born near Aughrim in Co Wicklow in 1947. He lived intermittently in Hungary over a period of ten years, and has published translations into English of poems by Agnes Nemes Nagy, Sándor Wéöres, and Endre Ady. His poetry as Hugh Maxton includes Stones (Dublin, Allen Figgis, 1970); The […]
Máighréad Medbh was born in Newcastlewest, Co Limerick, in 1959. Her collections are The Making of a Pagan (Belfast, Blackstaff Press, 1990); Tenant (The Cliffs of Moher, Salmon Poetry, 1999); and When the Air Inhales You (Galway, Arlen House, 2009). Well known as a performer of her work, which is also included in ¡Divas! (Arlen […]
Paula Meehan was born in Dublin in 1955. Her poetry collections include Return and No Blame (Dublin, Beaver Row, 1984); Reading the Sky (Beaver Row, 1986); The Man Who Was Marked by Winter (Oldcastle, Co Meath, The Gallery Press, 1991 – reprinted 1992, 1994 and 1999), which was shortlisted for the Irish Times/Aer Lingus Irish […]
Susan Millar DuMars was born in Philadelphia in 1966. The first full collection of her poetry is Big Pink Umbrella (Cliffs of Moher, Salmon Poetry, 2008); and Dreams for Breakfast (Salmon Poetry, 2010). Her short stories have been published as American Girls (Belfast, Lapwing, 2007). In 2005 she received an Irish Arts Council Bursary for […]
Billy Mills was born in Dublin in 1954. His publications include Genesis and Home (hardPressed Poetry, 1985); On First Looking into Lorine Niedecker (hardPressed Poetry 1986); A Small Love Song (Red Wheelbarrow Press, 1986 – folded broadsheet); Triple Helix (hardPressed Poetry 1987); Letters from Barcelona (Dedalus 1990); Properties Of Stone (Writers Forum, London 1996); 5 […]
Geraldine Mills was born in Galway. Her poetry collections are Unearthing Your Own (Cork, Bradshaw Books, 2001; Toil the Dark Harvest (Cork, Bradshaw Books, 2004); The Weight of Feathers (Galway, Arlen House, 2009); and An Urgency Of Stars (Arlen House, 2009). Her short story collections are Lick of the Lizard (Arlen House, 2006); and Weight […]
Geraldine Mitchell was born in Dublin and lived for many years in France, Algeria and Spain. Her first collection of poems is World Without Maps (Galway, Arlen House, 2011). Other publications include two novels for young people, Welcoming the French (Dublin, Attic Press, 1992); and Escape to the West (Attic Press 1994); and a biography […]
Judith Mok was born in Bergen in the Netherlands. A distinguished classical singer and recording artist, her poetry includes Sterkwater Ambo (De Prom,1985); Materiaal Ambo (De Prom, 1991); Het Feestmaal (Amsterdam, Meulenhoff, 1997); and Gods of Babel (Cliffs of Moher, Co Clare, Salmon Poetry, 2011). Her novels are Argelozen in het Circus (Bussum, Netherlands, Thoth, […]
Noel Monahan was born in Granard, Co Longford. His collections are Opposite Walls (Galway, Salmon Poetry, 1991); Snowfire (Salmon Poetry, 1995); Curse of the Birds (Cliffs of Moher, Co Clare, Salmon Publishing, 2001); The Funeral Game (Salmon Publishing, 2004); and Where the Wind Sleeps: New and Selected Poems (Salmon Publishing,2014). In 2001 he won the […]
John Montague was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1929 and reared on the family farm in Co Tyrone. His poetry includes Forms of Exile (1958); Poisoned Lands (Dublin, The Dolmen Press, 1961, 1977); A Chosen Light (1967); Tides (The Dolmen Press, 1971); (The Rough Field (Dolmen, 1972); A Slow Dance (Dolmen, 1975); The Great […]
Mary Montague was born in Enniskillen in 1964, reared in Ederney, Co Fermanagh. and studied Genetics and Zoology at Queen’s University, Belfast. Her collections are Black Wolf on a White Plain (Kilcar, Donegal, Summer Palace Press, 2001); and Tribe (Dublin, The Dedalus Press, 2008). She is currently living and working in Lancaster, UK. Mary Montague […]
Martin Mooney was born in Belfast 1964. His collections include Grub (Belfast, Blackstaff Press, 1993), which won the 1994 Brendan Behan Memorial Award; and Rasputin and his Children (Dublin, Blackwater Press, 2000, republished 2003 by Belfast, Lagan Press); and Blue Lamp Disco (Lagan Press, 2003). He is currently Development Officer for the Creative Writers’ Network […]
Alan Jude Moore was born in Dublin in 1973. His collections are Black State Cars (Cliffs of Moher, Salmon Poetry, 2004); Lost Republics (Salmon Poetry, 2008); Strasbourg (Salmon Poetry, 2010); and Zinger (Salmon Poetry, 2013). As well as being a poet, his fiction has been twice short-listed for the Hennessy Literary Awards. Translations of his […]
Alan Moore was born in 1960 in Dublin. His collections are Opia (London, Anvil Press, 1986), which was a Poetry Book Society Choice; and How Now! (Anvil Press, 2010). He is also a crime novelist, teacher, business adviser and the author of several professional books. He lives in Dublin. Alan Moore at Anvil Press Alan […]
Tom Morgan was born in Belfast in 1943. His collections are The Rat-Diviner (Dublin, Beaver Row Press, 1987); Nan of the Falls Rd Curfew (Beaver Row Press, 1990), which was nominated for the Irish Times/Aer Lingus Awards; In Queen Mary’s Gardens (Galway, Salmon Publishing,1991); and Ballintrillick in the Light of Ben Whiskin (Lagan Press, 2006). […]
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); […]
Sinéad Morrissey was born in Portadown in 1972. Her collections are There Was Fire in Vancouver (Manchester, Carcanet Press, 1996); Between Here and There (Carcanet, 2002); The State of the Prisons (Carcanet, 2005); Through the Square Window (Carcanet, 2009); and Parallax (Carcanet, 2013), for which she was awarded the T.S. Eliot Prize. In 1990, she […]
Pat Mullan was born in County Derry in 1939. His book of poetry and other writings, Childhood Hills, was published by Barnes & Noble/iUniverse (USA, 2000). His thriller novel, The Circle of Sodom, was published in the USA in 2002 and Blood Red Square (LBF Books, 2005). He lives in Connemara, Co Galway. Pat Mullan’s […]
Paul Muldoon was born in Co Armagh in 1951. His main works are New Weather (London: Faber & Faber, 1973); Mules (Faber & Faber and Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Wake Forest University Press, 1977); Immram (Dublin, Gallery Press, 1980); Why Brownlee Left (London: Faber/Wake Forest, 1980) ; Out of Siberia (Gallery Press, 1982); Quoof (Faber/Wake Forest, […]
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 […]
Aidan Murphy was born in Cork in 1952. His poetry collections are The Restless Factor (Dublin, Raven Arts Press, 1985); The Way the Money Goes (Raven Arts Press/London, Allison & Busby, 1987) which was a UK Poetry Book Society Recommendation; Small Sky, Big Change (Raven Arts Press, 1989); Stark Naked Blues (Dublin, New Island Books, […]
Gerry Murphy was born in Cork City in 1952. His collections are A Small Fat Boy Walking Backwards (Cork, Commons Press, 1988, Three Spires Press, 1992); Rio de la Plata and All That (Dublin, Dedalus, 1993); The Empy Quarter (Dedalus, 1995); Extracts from the Lost Log Book of Christopher Columbus (Dedalus, 1999); Torso of an […]
Michael Murphy was born in Liverpool in 1965. His poetry collections are After Attila (Nottingham, Shoestring Press, 1998), Elsewhere (Shoestring Press, 2003), and Allotments (Shoestring Press, 2008.) In 2001 he won the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize, awarded by Poetry Review to the New Poet of the Year, and his poems are included in The New Irish […]
Paul Murphy was born in Belfast in 1965. He has published one collection, In the Luxembourg Gardens (Salzburg, Poetry Salzburg, 1992), and T.S. Eliot’s Postmodernist Complaint (Brisbane, PostPressed), a book a book on TS Eliot and Jacques Lacan. Also an artist, he is presently living in Germany. Paul Murphy’s book on TS Eliot and Jacques […]
Richard Murphy was born in Mayo in 1927. His poetry collections include The Archaeology of Love (Dolmen, 1955); Sailing to an Island (Faber, 1963); The Battle of Aughrim (Knopf, and Faber, 1968; LP recording 1969); High Island (Faber 1974); High Island: New and Selected Poems (Harper and Row, 1975); Selected Poems (Faber 1979); The Price […]
Paul Murray was born in Newcastle, Co Down, in 1947. His poetry collections are Ritual Poems (Dublin, New Writers Press, 1971); Rites and Meditations (Dublin, Dolmen Press, 1982, which was awarded the Poetry Ireland Choice); and The Absent Fountain (Dublin, The Dedalus Press, 1991). His other books include The Mysticism Debate (Chicago, Herald Press, 1977); […]
