Patrick Galvin was born in Cork in 1927. His poetry collections include Heart of Grace (London, Linden Press, 1957); Christ in London (Linden Press, 1960); The Wood-burners (Dublin, New Writers Press, 1973); Man on the Porch (London, Martin Brien & O’Keeffe, 1980); Madwoman of Cork (cassette recording); Folktales for the General (Dublin, Raven Arts Press, [...]
Miriam Gallagher was born in Waterford. Her books are Let’s Help Our Children Talk (non fiction), (Dublin, The O’Brien Press, 1977, 1978, 1979); Fancy Footwork (Selected Plays) (Dublin, Society of Irish Playwrights, 1991, 1997); and Song for Salamander (a novel) (2004, Trafford, Victoria, BC, Canada). She has also published short stories, including Pusakis at Paros [...]
Owen Gallagher was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1949 of Irish parents. His mother was from Leitrim, his father, Donegal. His first collection is Sat Guru Snowman (UK, Peterloo Poets, 2001). He has received an award from the London Arts Board in 2002 to work on his next collection. He lives in London. Owen Gallagher [...]
Carlo Gébler was born to the writers Edna O’Brien and Ernest Gébler in Dublin in 1954. He moved to London with his mother in 1958. His novels include The Eleventh Summer (London, Hamish Hamilton/New York, Dutton 1985); August in July (Hamish Hamilton, 1986); Work and Play (Hamish Hamilton/ New York, Fireside, 1987); Malachy and His [...]
Ernest Gébler was born in Dublin in 1915. He was married for a time to Edna O’Brien and they had two sons, Sasha, and the novelist Carlo Gébler. His principal novels are He had My Heart Scalded; The Voyage of the Mayflower (1950), which was filmed and sold five million copies; A Week in the [...]
Karen Gillece was born in Dublin in 1974. Her novels are Seven Nights In Zaragoza (Dublin, Hodder Headline Ireland, 2005); Longshore Drift (Hodder Headline Ireland, 2006); My Glass Heart (Hodder Headline Ireland, 2007); and The Absent Wife (Hachette Books Ireland, 2008). Her short stories have appeared in Moments: Irish Women Writers In Aid Of The [...]
Alan Gillis was born in Belfast in 1973. His collections are Somebody, Somewhere (Loughcrew, The Gallery Press, 2004), which was short-listed for the Irish Times Poetry Now Award and received the Rupert and Eithne Strong Award for best first collection; Hawks and Doves (The Gallery Press, 2007), which was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, and [...]
Ray Givans was born in Portadown, Co Armagh, and grew up in Castlecaulfield, Co.Tyrone. His collection is Tolstoy in Love (Dublin, Dedalus Press, 2009), which was shortlisted for the Strong Award for best first collection by an Irish poet in 2010. A bilingual English-Italian version is published by Kolibris (Bologna, 2011). He has been awarded [...]
Anthony Glavin was born in Boston in 1946 of Irish heritage. He has been editor of New Irish Writing (1987-88) and more latterly former Commissioning Editor of New Island Books. His novel is Nighthawk Alley (Dublin, New Island Books, 1997). Widely anthologized, his story collections are One For Sorrow (Dublin, Poolebeg, 1980); and The Draughtsman [...]
Anthony Glavin was born in Dublin in 1945. His poems are collected as The Wrong Side of the Alps (Loughcrew, Co Meath, The Gallery Press, 1989). In 1987 he won the Patrick Kavanagh Award. He lived in Dublin where he taught in The Royal Irish Academy of Music. He died in 2006. Anthony Glavin at [...]
