Philip Casey was born to Irish parents in London in 1950 and grew up in Co Wexford.

His verse collections are Those Distant Summers (Dublin, Raven Arts Press, 1980); After Thunder (Raven Arts Press, 1985); The Year of the Knife Poems 1980-1990, (Raven Arts Press Dublin, 1991); and Dialogue in Fading Light/New and Selected Poems (Dublin, New Island Books, 2005).

His play Cardinal, was performed in Hamburg in 1990.

His novels are The Fabulists (Dublin, The Lilliput Press, 1994/ London, Serif Books, 1995); The Water Star (London, Picador, 1999); and The Fisher Child (Picador, 2001), which completes The Bann River Trilogy.

He was awarded the inaugural Kerry Ingredients/ Listowel Writers’ Week Novel of the Year Award (1995) for The Fabulists. A member of Aosdána, he tends to Irish Writers Online and other websites in his spare time.

He lives in Dublin.

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Philip Casey’s website
Philip Casey’s Irish Culture
Slimming for the Beach, Philip Casey’s Blog
Philip Casey at The National Library of Ireland

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