Kate O’Riordan was born in the West of Ireland. Her novels are Involved (1995), which was shortlisted for the Dillons First Fiction Prize, and has been adapted by the author for TV; The Boy in the Moon (London, Flamingo, 1997); The Angel in the House (London, Flamingo, 2000); The Memory Stones (London, Simon & Schuster, […]
TS O’Rourke was born in 1968. His novels include Ganglands (Breffni Books, 1996); Death Call (Breffni Books, 1997); and The Republican (Killynon House Books, 2006). He has lived in Sydney, Gothenburg and London. Interview on Kindle Author Blogspot T.S. O’Rourke at The National Library of Ireland
Maeve O’Sullivan was born in Dublin in 1963. Her collections are Double Rainbow [with Kim Richardson](Uxbridge, UK, Alba Publishing, 2005); Initial Response, An A-Z of haiku moments (Alba Publishing, 2011); and Vocal Chords (Alba Publishing, 2014). She is a winner of the Listowel Writers’ Week poetry competition for a single poem, and conducts haiku workshops […]
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 […]
Fintan O’Toole was born in Dublin in 1958. His books include The Politics of Magic: The Work and Times of Tom Murphy (Dublin, Raven Arts Press, 1987); A Mass for Jesse James: A Journey Through 1980s Ireland (Raven Arts Press, 1990); Black Hole, Green Card: The Disappearance of Ireland (Dublin, New Island Books, 1994); Meanwhile […]
Gregory O’Donoghue was born in Cork in 1951, where he studied in UCC under Sean Lucy and John Montague. After some years as an academic in Canada, in 1980 he moved to Lincolnshire where he worked freight trains between South Derbyshire and King’s Cross, Nottingham and Skegness. He then moved back to Cork. The youngest […]
Mary O’Donoghue was born in 1975 and grew up in Co. Clare. Her collections are Tulle (The Cliffs of Moher, Salmon Publishing, 2001); and Among These Winters (Dublin, The Dedalus Press, 2007). Her debut novel is Before the House Burns (Dublin, The Lilliput Press, 2010). Her awards for fiction include Hennessy/Sunday Tribune New Irish Writer […]
Julia O’Faolain was born in London in 1932 to the writer Sean O’Faolain and children’s writer Eileen O’Faolain (née Gould). Her works include the short story collections We Might See Sights! and Other Stories (London, Faber & Faber, 1968); Man in the Cellar (Faber & Faber, 1974); and Daughters of Passion (London, Penguin, 1982). Her […]
Micheal O’Siadhail was born in Dublin in 1947. His collections are An Bhliain Bhisigh (Baile Átha Cliath, An Clóchomhar, 1978); Runga (An Clóchomhar, 1980); Cumann (An Clóchomhar, 1982); The Image Wheel (Dublin, Bluett, 1985); The Chosen Garden (Dublin, Dedalus, 1990); Hail! Madam Jazz: New and Selected Poems (Tarset, UK, Bloodaxe Books, 1992); A Fragile City […]
Derry O’Sullivan was born in Cork in 1944. A former student of Seán Ó Tuama, his poetry collections in Irish are Cá bhfuil do Iudás? (Dublin, Coscéim, 1987) winner of four Oireachtas poetry awards and the Sean O Riordáin Memorial Prize; Cá bhfuil Tiarna Talún l’Univers? (Coscéim, 1994); and An Lá go dTáinig Siad, Coscéim, […]
Leanne O’Sullivan was born in 1983 in the Beara peninsula of West Cork. Her collections are Waiting for My Clothes (Northumberland, UK, Bloodaxe Books, 2004); Cailleach. The Hag of Beara (Bloodaxe Books, 2009); and The Mining Road (Bloodaxe Books, 2013). She has been awarded the 2009 Ireland Chair of Poetry bursary, and The Rooney Prize […]
Frank Ormsby was born in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, in 1947. His books of poetry include the collections Ripe for Company (Belfast, Ulsterman Publications, 1971); A Store of Candles (Oxford University Press, 1977); A Northern Spring (London, Secker & Warburg, 1986); and The Ghost Train (Oldcastle, Co Meath, The Gallery Press, 1995). He has edited a […]
Damien Owens was born in Monaghan in 1971. He also writes under the name Alex Coleman “for (sigh) marketing reasons”. His novels as Damien Owens are Dead Cat Bounce (London, Flame, 2001) Peter and Mary Have a Row (Flame, 2002). As Alex Coleman he has published The Bright Side (Dublin, Poolebeg Press, 2008); and Little […]
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