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Margaret MacCurtain
Is a distinguished historian with an internationally acclaimed
academic career.A Dominican nun, she has been awarded many honours
including Honorary Research Fellowship in UCD and Chair of the
National Archives Advisory Council, and co-publisher of the monumental
Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing (4 & 5). In the RTE
programme Time on Their Hands she fulfilled a long held dream
to follow in the footsteps of her heroine Saint Teresa of Avila.
Sylvia O'Brien
This Irish soprano has impressed audiences in opera, oratorio
and chamber music. She has performed with the RTE National Symphony
Orchestra, Orchestra of St. Cecelia, the Irish Chamber Orchestra,
the German NDR and the Dutch Magogo Chamber Orchestra. Collaborations
include the Callino Quartet, the Solstice Quartet, Trocca and
Syrius. Her recital repertoire includes French Song and Lieder.
Gabriel Fitzmaurice
Was born and lives in Kerry. He recently retired as principal
teacher in the local primary school where he taught since 1975.
He is author of more than forty books, including collections of
poetry in English and Irish as well as several collections of
verse for children.A translator from the Irish, he is also an
editor and broadcasts frequently on radio and television. A cassette
of his poems, The Space Between: New and Selected
- Poems 1984-1992 is also available.
Lia Mills
was born in Dublin in 1957. Her novels are Another
Alice (Dublin, Poolbeg); and Nothing
Simple (Dublin, Penguin Ireland).. As well as critical
articles and short stories, she has also published In
Your Face (Penguin Ireland), an autobiographical account
of cancer. She lives in Dublin.
Glenn Patterson
A native of Belfast, he studied Creative Writing at the
University of East Anglia taught by Malcolm Bradbury. He has been
Writer in Residence at UEA, UCC and Queen's University Belfast
where he currently teaches. His first novel Burning
Your Own won a Betty Trask Award and the Rooney Prize for
Irish Literature and Fat Lad was short
listed for the GPA Book Award. His latest novel That
Which Was was published in 2004. Lapsed
Protestant is a collection of non-fiction
Dermot
Bolger
Is a Finglas born writer of six novels, eight plays and
six books of poetry. He is founder and editor of Raven Arts Press,
executive editor of New Island Books and the recipient of many
awards - A.E. Memorial Prize 1986, Macauley Fellowship, 1987,
Samuel Beckett Award. Among his best known books are Night
Shift, The Journey Home and A Second
Life. He is a member of Aosdána and lives in Dublin.
Eilís Ni Dhuibhne
Was born in Dublin. She has written plays, collections of short
stories and novels including The Bray House,
The Inland Ice, Dúnmharú
sa Daingean, and most recently Fox,
Swallow Scarecrow. She has a doctorate in Folklore and
Mediaeval Literature from UCD and is the recipient of many awards.
Melissa Murray
Is a London born award winning poet and playwright who
works mainly in theatre and radio. Her work for BBC Radio 4, Radio
3 and the World Service includes many short stories and over 15
original plays. She dramatised Dostoyevsky's The
Brothers Karamazov in 5 parts for BBC Radio 4 in 2006.
She moved to Ireland inthe 1980's and her collection of short
stories Changelings was published here.
Robert O'Byrne
a journalist and historian, he is the author of Hugh
Lane 1875 - 1915 , Mind Your Manners, Dublin's Gaiety Theatre
and most recently, The Irish Georgian Society
- A Celebration.
John Banville
Was born in Wexford and now lives in Dublin. He was Literary
Editor of The Irish Times and is now a full time writer. His first
book Long Lankin was published in 1970.
His other books include Nightspawn, Birchwood,
Doctor Copernicus (winner of the James Tait Black Memorial
Prize in 1976), Kepler (Guardian Fiction
Prize in 1981), The Newton Letter (filmed
for Channel 4), Mefisto, The Book of Evidence
(winner of the 1989 GPA Award), Ghosts, Athena,
The Untouchable,Eclipse, Shroud and The
Sea which won the Booker Prize in 2005.
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