Marion was born into the heart of Sliabh Luachra, County Kerry. The visiting customs and traditions of her family and neighbours stimulated Marion’s curiosity for the written and spoken word. The memory of these rituals in the Parlours of her youth was reason enough to re-create a similar atmosphere some twenty years later in... »
As energising and confrontational as the music it examined, Shell Shock Rock (1978), John T Davis’ first major film looked at the burgeoning northern punk music scene and introduced... »
Emer Martin is a Dubliner and has lived in Paris, London, the Middle East, and various places in the U.S. Her first novel Breakfast in Babylon won Book of... »
I was born in the 1980s. I have reason to believe my father may have been a house spider, but I can’t know for sure. When I was small,... »
Mark Granier was born in London in 1957 and brought up in Dublin, where he still lives. He has published two collections of poetry with Salmon Poetry, AIRBORNE (2001)... »
Born in Ennis, County Clare in 1958, Mick O’Dea studied at the National College of Art and Design and the University of Massachusetts from 1976 to 1981. In 1997... »
Peter Murphy is a writer, spoken word performer, musician and journalist. His first novel John the Revelator was published in the UK and Ireland by Faber & Faber and... »
Brian Turners book Here, Bullet won the Poets’ Prize in 2007. From Fresno, California, Brian Turner has seen his poems published in poetry daily, the atlantic review and several... »
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 Irelands’s Unfinished Revolution. His most recent work,... »
Celebrated poet, author, artist, essayist, and activist Breyten Breytenbach was born in 1939 in the Western Cape and studied Fine Arts at the University of Cape Town, before leaving... »
I started school in St. Canice’s at the age of seven. My future comrade Dermot Bolger sat in the next door classroom, though it would be 10 years before... »
‘In the eighteenth century Blake wrote two books – he wrote one called America, A Prophesy and the other called Europe A Prophesy, and this was in French revolutionary... »
Anatoly Kudryavitsky was born in Moscow on Chekhov Street. That’s why his father, a great fan of Anton Chekhov, always called his son Anthony, but his mother kept calling... »
Poetry is a pink apron. Recently, I remembered wearing a pink apron when I was nine years old and went to the girl’s school the: Ecole Frederic Mistral in... »
Tom Mathews has been described by the Irish Times as “an Institution in Dublin for 30 years”. His own description is equally compelling: “Tom Mathews (Born 1952) is well... »
My first memory is of standing in a hospital cot at night, looking over the cot bars to a rocking horse on the other side of the ward. There... »