Billy Ramsell was born in Cork in 1977. His first collection is Complicated Pleasures (Dublin, Dedalus Press, 2007). Shortlisted in 2005 for a Hennessy award, he lives in Cork. Billy Ramsell at Dedalus Press Billy Ramsell at The National Library of Ireland
John Redmond was born in Dublin in 1967. His collections are Thumb’s Width (Manchester, Carcanet Press, 2001); and MUDe (Carcanet, 2008). His non-fiction is How to Write a Poem (Oxford, Blackwell, 2005); and Poetry and Privacy (London, Seren, 2011). He has edited James Liddy’s posthumous Selected Poems (Dublin, Arlen House, 2011), and is a regular [...]
Nell Regan was born in London and grew up in Dublin. Her collections are Preparing for Spring (Galway, Arlen House, 2007/New York, Syracuse University Press, 2008); and Bound for Home (Arlen House, 2011). She has also published a chapbook, Underworld (Belfast, Lapwing, 2004). Among her non-fiction publications is the first biography of Helena Molony, (Female [...]
Adrian Rice was born in Belfast in 1958. His first sequence of poems appeared in Muck Island, a collaboration with the artist Ross Wilson. Copies of this limited edition box set are in the collections of The Tate Gallery, The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and the Lamont Library, Harvard University. A second sequence was [...]
Keith Ridgway was born in Dublin in 1965. He has published a collection of short stories, Standard Time (Faber & Faber, 2001); a novella, Horses (London, Faber & Faber, 1997}; and the novels The Long Falling (London, Faber & Faber, 1998/ New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1998); The Parts (Faber & Faber, 2003); and Animals (London, [...]
Gerard Reidy was born in Co Mayo. His collection is Pictures from a Reservation (Dublin, The Dedalus Press, 1998). He has won numerous national poetry competitions including The Allingham Prize. He lives in Westport, Co Mayo Gerard Reidy’s Website Gerard Reidy at The National Library of Ireland
Maurice Riordan was born in Lisgoold, Co Cork, in 1953. His collections are A Word from the Loki (London, Faber and Faber, 1995), which was a Poetry Book Society Choice; Floods (Faber & Faber, 2000), which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize; The Holy Land (Faber, 2007). He has edited, with science-journalist Jon Turney, an [...]
Billy Roche was born in Wexford in 1949. He was for many years a singer, fronting his own band, The Roach Band. Best known as a dramatist, he has published one novel, Tumbling Down (Dublin,Wolfhound Press, 1984); and a collection of stories, Tales from Rainwater Pond (Kilkenny, Pillar Press, 2006). His plays include The Wexford [...]
Frank Ronan was born in New Ross, Co Wexford in 1963. His first novel, The Man Who Loved Evelyn Cotton (London, Bloomsbury, 1989), received the Irish Times/Aer Lingus Irish Literature Prize. His subsequent novels include A Picnic in Eden (Bloomsbury, 1991); The Better Angel (Bloomsbury, 1992); Lovely (London, Sceptre, 1995); and Home (Sceptre, 2002). His [...]
Aidan Rooney (var. Aidan Rooney-Cespedes) was born in Monaghan in 1965. His collections are (as Aidan Rooney-Cespedes) Day Release (Oldcastle, Co Meath, The Gallery Press, 2000); and (as Aidan Rooney), Tightrope (the Gallery Press, 2008). In 1997 he received the Sunday Tribune/Hennessy Cognac New Irish Writing Award for Poetry. Since 1988 he has taught French [...]
