Peter Jankowsky was born in Berlin in 1939. He studied acting in Berlin and worked for ten years with a number of German theatre companies. He settled in Dublin in 1971, having visited Ireland since the 1950s. His poetry translations include (with Brian Lynch) Paul Celan: 65 Poems (Raven Arts Press, 1986); Davoren Hanna: Unüblice [...]
Biddy Jenkinson (a pseudonym) was born in 1949. Her collections include Baisteadh Gintlí (Baile Átha Cliath, Coiscéim, 1987); Uiscí Beatha (Coiscéim, 1988); Dán na hUidhre (Coiscéim, 1991); Amhras Neimhe (Coiscéim, 1997); An Grá Riabhach (Coscéim, 1999); Mis (Coiscéim, 2001); Rogha Dánta (Cork University Press, 1999); and Oíche Bhealtaine (Coiscéim, 2005). Her plays Mise, Subhó agus [...]
Fred Johnston was born in Belfast in 1951. His collections are Measuring Angles (Connamara, Clo Iar-Chonnachta, 1993); True North (Cliffs of Moher, Co Clare, Salmon Poetry, 1997); Being Anywhere – New & Selected Poems (Belfast, Lagan Press, 2001); and The Neon Rose (Bristol, Bluechrome, 2007). His novels are Picture of a Girl in a Spanish [...]
Jennifer Johnston was born in Dublin in 1930. Her novels have been published in many countries. Her main works are the novels The Captains and the Kings (London, Hamish Hamilton, 1972); The Gates (Hamish Hamilton, 1973); How Many Miles to Babylon? (Hamish Hamilton, 1974); Shadows on our Skin (Hamish Hamilton, 1977); The Old Jest (Hamish [...]
Denis Johnston was born in Dublin in 1901. His plays include The Old Lady Says ‘No’ (Dublin, The Gate Theatre, 1929); The Moon in the Yellow River (Dublin, The Abbey Theatre, 1931/Jonathan Cape, London, 1932); The Bride for the Unicorn (The Gate Theatre, 1933/ Jonathan Cape, London, 1935); Storm Song (The Gate Theatre, 1934); Blind [...]
Marie Jones was born in Belfast in 1951. She was one of the founders of the Charabanc Theatre Company, which was founded to counteract the lack of roles for women, and which produced a series of collaboratively written original works. Contemporaneously, Marie Jones wrote five plays for The Replay Theatre Company, including Under Napoleon’s Nose [...]
John Jordan was born in Dublin in 1930. His poetry collections are Patrician Stations (Dublin, New Writers Press, 1971); A Raft from Flotsam (Dublin, The Gallery Press, 1975); Blood and Stations ([verse and autobiographical prose] The Gallery Press, 1976); With Whom Did I Share the Crystal (Meath, St Beuno’s, 1980); Collected Poems ([ed. with preface [...]
Neil Jordan was born in Sligo in 1950. He has published one book of short stories, A Night in Tunisia (Co-Op Books, 1976), and the novels The Past (London, Jonathan Cape, 1980); The Dream of a Beast (Jonathan Cape, 1983); Sunrise and Seamonster (Jonathan Cape, 1995), Shade (London, Hodder Lir, 2004); and Mistaken (London, John [...]
James Joyce was born in Dublin on February 2, 1882. His poetry includes Chamber Music (London, Elkin Mathews, 1907); Pomes Pennyeach (Paris, Shakespheare & Company, 1927); and Collected Poems (New York, The Black Sun Press, 1963). His collection of short stories is Dubliners (London, Grant Richards, 1914). His play, Exiles, was first performed in 1917 [...]
Trevor Joyce was born in Dublin in 1947. Co-founder and co-editor (with Michael Smith) of New Writers’ Press in 1967, and founding editor of The Lace Curtain, his collections include Sole Glum Trek (Dublin, New Writers Press, 1967); Watches (NWP, 1969); Pentahedron (NWP, 1972); The Poems of Sweeney Peregrine (NWP, 1976); and stone floods (NWP, [...]
