Sean O’Reilly
Sean O’Reilly was born in Derry in 1969. He has published a collection of short stories, Curfew and Other Stories (London, Faber …
Emer Martin
Emer Martin is a Dubliner and has lived in Paris, London, the Middle East, and various places in the U.S. Her first …
Peter Murphy
Peter Murphy is a writer, spoken word performer, musician and journalist. His first novel John the Revelator was published in the UK …
Timothy O’Grady
Timothy O’Grady is the author of the prize-winning novel Motherland and co-author with Kenneth Griffith of Curious Journey: An Oral History of …
Breyten Breytenbach
Celebrated poet, author, artist, essayist, and activist Breyten Breytenbach was born in 1939 in the Western Cape and studied Fine Arts at …
Michael O’Loughlin
I started school in St. Canice’s at the age of seven. My future comrade Dermot Bolger sat in the next door classroom, …
Anatoly Kudryavitsky
Anatoly was born in Moscow on Chekhov Street. That’s why his father, a great fan of Anton Chekhov, always called his son …
Judith Mok
Poetry is a pink apron. Recently, I remembered wearing a pink apron when I was nine years old and went to the …
Philip Casey
My first memory is of standing in a hospital cot at night, looking over the cot bars to a rocking horse on …
Mary O’Donnell
I was born in Monaghan and grew up in a bewildering land of many-sided political opinion. On the one hand, the ‘North’ …