Hugo Hamilton was born in Dublin of Irish-German parentage. His novels are Surrogate City (London, Faber & Faber,1990); The Last Shot (Faber & Faber, 1991); The Love Test (Faber & Faber, 1995); Headbanger (London, Secker & Warburg, 1996); Sad Bastard (Secker & Warburg, 1998); Disguise (London, Fourth Estate, 2008); and Hand in the Fire (Fourth [...]
Although he claimed to have been born in Cork, Gerald Hanley was born in Liverpool in 1916, of an Irish family, but went to Africa when he was 19, where he joined the British army on the outbreak of the Second World War. He saw service in Burma (Myanmar), and his first book, Monsoon Victory [...]
James Hanley claimed he was born in Dublin on 3 September 1901, but was actually born in Liverpool in 1897 to Irish parents. His novel Boy was the subject of an obscenity charge in Manchester in early 1936 – to which his publishers pleaded guilty and were heavily fined. The book was withdrawn and all [...]
Davoren Hanna was born in Dublin in 1975. He published one collection, Not Common Speech (Dublin, Raven Arts Press, 1990). Amongst his awards are The Christy Brown Award, The British Spastics Society National Literary Award, The Welsh Academy Young Writers Competition and The Observer National Children’s Poetry Competition. He was the subject of an RTÉ [...]
Kerry Hardie was born in Singapore in 1951, and grew up in County Down. Her poetry is collected as A Furious Place (Oldcastle, Co Meath, The Gallery Press, 1996); Cry for the Hot Belly (The Gallery Press, 2000); The Sky Didn’t Fall (The Gallery Press, 2003); The Silence Came Close (The Gallery Press, 2006); and [...]
Michael Harding was born in Cavan in 1953. He has published two novels, Priests (Blackstaff Press, 1986), and The Trouble With Sarah Gullion (Blackstaff Press, 1988); and the novella Bird in the Snow (Dublin, The Lilliput Press, 2008). His plays are Strawboys (Dublin, The Abbey Theatre, Peacock stage, 1987); Una Pooka (The Peacock, 1989); Misogynist [...]
Maurice Harmon was born in 1930 in Co Dublin. Emeritus Professor of Anglo-Irish Literature at University College Dublin, he is a distinguished critic, biographer, editor, literary historian, and poet. His published academic work includes Sean O Faolain: A Critcal Study; (Notre Dame, IN, University of Notre Dame Press, 1966); The Poetry of Thomas Kinsella (Dublin, [...]
Shane Harrison was born in Dublin. He graduated from the National College of Art and Design in the early ‘80s and has worked in television, advertising and as a freelance designer. His stories are collected as Blues Before Dawn (Dublin, Poolbeg Press, 1992) and The Benefits of Tobacco (Dublin, Forty Foot Press, 2007) He lives [...]
Josephine Hart was born in Mullingar, Co Westmeath in 1942. She moved to London in 1964, where she became the only woman director of Haymarket Publishing, and later founded Gallery Poets and West End Poetry Hour, which presents the works of major poets like Eliiot, Larken, Auden, Yeats, Plath, and read by actors such as [...]
Jack Harte was born in Sligo in 1944. His short stories collections are Murphy in the Underworld (Dublin, Glendale, 1986); Birds and Other Tails (Dublin, The Dedalus Press, 1996); Birds and Selected Stories (Opheus, Sophia, Bulgaria, 2001); and From Under Gogol’s Nose (Dublin, Scotus Press, 2004), accompanied by the CD Lament for the Birds, Sligo [...]
