Paul Casey was born in Cork, Ireland in 1968. His debut collection is home more or less (Cliffs of Moher, Salmon Poetry, 2012). His chapbook of longer poems is It’s Not all Bad (Coventry, Heaventree Press, 2009) In October 2010 his poetry-film The Lammas Hireling, after the poem by Ian Duhig, premièred at the Zebra […]
Patrick Chapman was born in Co Roscommon in 1968. His poetry collections are Jazztown (Dublin, Raven Arts Press, 1991); The New Pornography (Galway, Salmon, 1996); Breaking Hearts And Traffic Lights (The Cliffs of Moher, Salmon, 2007); and The Darwin Vampires (Salmon Poetry, 2010). His stories are collected as The Wow Signal, (Portishead, Bluechrome, 2007), and […]
Neil Jordan was born in Sligo in 1950. He has published one book of short stories, A Night in Tunisia (Co-Op Books, 1976), and the novels The Past (London, Jonathan Cape, 1980); The Dream of a Beast (Jonathan Cape, 1983); Sunrise and Seamonster (Jonathan Cape, 1995), Shade (London, Hodder Lir, 2004); and Mistaken (London, John […]
Emer Martin was born in Dublin in 1968. Her novels are Breakfast In Babylon (Dublin, Wolfhound, 1995/New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1997); More Bread Or I’ll Appear (New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1999/London, Alison & Busby, 2000) ; and Baby Zero (Dingle, Brandon, 2007). Breakfast In Babylon won The Kerry Ingredients Book of the Year 1996 at […]
Liz O’Donoghue was born in North Cork in 1960. Her debut collection is Train to Gorey (Galway, Arlen House, 2008). In 1991 she founded the Live Poets Society, a pub-based live poetry performance group.Her anthology of Cork poets, In the Hands of Erato, which she produced and directed, was screened at the Cork Film Festival […]
Michael 0’Sullivan was born in Cork City in 1959. His collections of poetry include The Physics of Parting (Indiana, Wyndham Hall Press/Cloverdale Library, 1993); Mornings of the Oresteia, New & Selected Poems 1978-2008 (Belfast, Lapwing Publications, 2008); and The Judge Who Sentenced You to Your Own Destiny (Lapwing Publications, 2008). His work has won many […]
Bob Quinn was born in 1935. He is primarily known as an independent film-maker, and has made more than 100 films, including documentary, feature and experimental, and which include Listen (1978); Self-Portrait with Red Car (1976); Poitín (1978); Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoire (1975); Atlantean (1985); and Budawanny (1987). He has received many awards, and two […]
Jim Sheridan was born in Dublin in 1949. He is best known as a film director but his early work was in the theatre. His plays are Journal of a Hole ([co-author Neil Jordan] Dublin, Project Arts Centre, 1971); Women at Work([co-author Peter Sheridan] Team Educational Company, 1976); Mobile Homes (Project Arts Centre, 1976); Where […]
