Irish Writers Online

Welcome/Fáilte to Irish Writers Online.

Irish Writers Online is a no-frills bio-bibliographical database of almost 600 Irish writers, and related resources. It is used by students, academics, media and lovers of Irish Literature from more than 170 countries.

See alphabetical list or search to find an author.

Please feel free to comment.

Editor

My name is Philip Casey and apart from being a novelist and poet, I’m the begetter and maintainer of Irish Writers Online.

Criteria for Inclusion

At least one poetry or short story collection, novel, play or script published by a bona fide publisher (ie, not vanity published) or if it’s a play or film, produced professionally.

Please read some sample entries to get an idea of the bare bones format. Essentially: Name, place of birth, year of birth (optional) books, place of publication, publisher, year. Any awards, where living now (optional). Do include your website address if you have one. It’s helpful to mention your discipline or disciplines ie novelist, poet, or novelist and poet, etc.

For those who do not understand Irish,

file means poet; drámadóir means dramatist; and úrscéalaí means novelist.They are used here to denote a writer who writes primarily or exclusively in Irish.

Note: This is a democratic and inclusive website. Provided the body of a writer’s work fulfills the above criteria, there is no intention to exclude anyone.

If someone is not in IWO, it merely means that I am one person with limited spare time and have either unintentionally overlooked, or have been unaware of the omitted writer.

If you think a writer should be included, please contact me. If you have information on a writer, so much the better – send it. I would appreciate if you studied the format before sending information.