Patrick Kavanagh was born in Inniskeen, County Monaghan in 1904. His poetry volumes are Ploughman & Other Poems (London, MacMillan Contemporary Poets Series, 1936); The Great Hunger (Dublin, The Cuala Press, 1942, Limited Edition); A Soul for Sale (MacMillan, 1947); Recent Poems (New York, The Peter Kavanagh Hand Press, 1958); Come Dance with Kitty Stobling [...]
Walter Keady was born in Castlebar, Co. Mayo, in 1934. His novels are Celibates and Other Lovers (Denver, Colorado, MacMurray & Beck,1997); Mary McGreevy (MacMurray & Beck, 1998); The Altruist (San Francisco, MacAdam/Cage, 2003 / London, Robert Hale, 2005); The Dowry (Thomas Dunne Books, 2007). Celibates and Other Lovers was published in German as Gottesdiener [...]
John B. Keane was born in Listowel, Co Kerry in 1928. He published forty-six works, but is best known for his plays which inlcude Sive; Sharon’s Grave; The Man from Clare; The Year of the Hiker; The Field (which was adapted as a film of the same name); Many Young Men of Twenty; Big Maggie; [...]
Molly Keane was born in Co Kildare in 1904 into an Anglo-Irish gentry family, the daughter of Walter Clarmount Skrine of Warleigh Manor, Somerset and Agnes Shakespeare Higginson, who published under the pseudonym Moira O’Neill, and whose novels The Elf Errant and An Easter Vacation, as well as a collection Songs of the Glen of [...]
Claire Keegan was born in Wexford in 1968. Her story collections are Antarctica (London, Faber and Faber, 1999/New York, Grove/Atlantic, 1999); Walk the Blue Fields (Faber and Faber, 2007/ Grove Press, Black Cat, 2008); and the single story Foster (Faber and Faber, 2010). Her awards include The Francis MacManus Award; The William Trevor Prize; the [...]
Denis Kehoe was born in Dublin in 1978. His novels are Nights Between the Nation (London, Serpent’s Tail, 2009); and Walking on Dry Land (Serpent’s Tail, 2011). He has studied philosophy and European literature and works as a critic, researcher and literacy tutor. He lives in Dublin. Denis Kehoe at Serpent’s Tail Denis Kehoe at [...]
Richard Kell was born in Youghal, Co Cork, in 1927. His poetry collections include Control Tower (London, Chatto & Windus, 1962); Differences (Chatto & Windus, 1969); Humours (Sunderland, Ceolfrith Press, 1978); The Broken Circle (Ceolfrith Press, 1981); In Praise of Warmth (Dublin, Dedalus Press, 1987); Rock and Water (Dedalus Press, 1993); Collected Poems (Belfast, Lagan [...]
John Kelly was born in Co Fermanagh in 1965. Well known as a journalist and broadcaster, his novels are The Little Hammer (London, Jonathan Cape, 2000); and Sophisticated Boom Boom (Jonathan Cape, 2003). He lives in Dublin. John Kelly at RTÉ Mystery Train John Kelly at RTÉ Lyric FM John Kelly at The National Library [...]
Julia Kelly was born in 1969. Her first novel is With My Lazy Eye (Dublin, The Lilliput Press, 2007). She was short-listed for the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award, and was nominated as one of the Irish Book Awards Books of the Decade in 2010. She lives in Bray, Co Wicklow. Julia Kelly at Writing.ie [...]
Rita Kelly (var. Rita E. Kelly) was born in Galway in 1953. Her poetry has been collected as An Bealach Eadóigh (Baile Átha Cliath, Coiscéim, 1984; the bi-lingual Fare Well: Beir Beannacht (Dublin, The Attic Press, 1990); and Travelling West (Galway, Arlen House, 2000). Her short stories have been collected as The Whispering Arch and [...]
