Drucilla Wall was born in Chicago and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her first collection is The Geese at the Gates (Cliffs of Moher, Salmon Poetry, 2011). She teaches poetry and essay writing, and Native American literature, at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Her awards include the Mari Sandoz Prairie Schooner Short Story Award; the Western [...]
Eamonn Wall was born in Enniscorthy, Co Wexford in 1955. He has published two chapbooks, The Tame Goose (New York, The Hale Press, 1990); and Fire Escape (New York, Sunken-Isle Press, 1988). His poetry is collected as Dyckman – 200th Street (Cliffs of Moher, Co Clare, Salmon Publishing, 1994); Iron Mountain Road (Salmon Publishing 1997); [...]
Mervyn Wall was born in Dublin in 1908. His main works include the novels The Unfortunate Fursey (London, the Pilot Press, 1946/New York, Crown Publishers, 1947); The Return of Fursey (London, The Pilot Press, 1948); Leaves for the Burning (London, Methuen, 1952/New York, Devin-Adair, 1952); No Trophies Raise (Metheun, 1956); Hermitage (Dublin, The Wolfhound Press, [...]
William Wall was born in Cork in 1955. His poetry collections are Mathematics & Other Poems* (Collins Press 1997), which won The Patrick Kavanagh Award and the Listowel Writers’ Week Collection Prize; Fahrenheit Says Nothing To Me (Dublin, Dedalus Press, 2004); and Ghost Estate (Cliffs of Moher, Salmon Poetry, 2011). As Bill Wall, he has [...]
Catherine Walsh was born in Dublin in 1964. Her poetry includes Macula (Dublin, Red Wheelbarrow Press, 1986); The Ca Pater Pillar Thing and More Besides (Dublin, hardPressed Poetry, 1986); Making Tents (hardPressed Poetry, 1987); Short Stories (UK, Twickenham and Wakefield, North & South, 1989); from Pitch (London, Form Books, 1993); Pitch (Durham, UK, Pig press, [...]
Michael Walsh was born at Ben of Fore, Castlepollard, Co. Westmeath. His poetry collections are Brown Earth and Green ([with a foreword by Katherine Tynan] Dublin, The Talbot Press, 1929); The Heart Remembers Morning (The Talbot Press, 1931); Red on the Holly (Dublin, Colm O’Lochlainn at the Sign of the Three Candles, 1934); Walls in [...]
Eugene Watters/Eoghan Ó Tuairisc was born in Ballinasloe, Co Galway in 1919. He received a Masters Degree in English Literature and Language from UCD. He served as an Officer in the Irish Army and worked as a primary teacher in Dublin until 1961, when he became a full time writer. After the death of his [...]
Anthony Weir was born in 1941. His publications include Tide and Undertow (translations of poetry) (Belfast, Blackstaff Press, 1975); Early Ireland: A Field Guide (Blackstaff Press, 1980); Cinema of the Blind (poems) (Blackstaff Press,1981). He founded non-profit Dissident Editions in 1994 and self-published Dispatches from the War Against the World (1994); The Transcendental Hotel (1997), [...]
Grace Wells was born in London in 1968. Her books for children include Gyrfalcon (Dublin, O’Brien Press, 2002), which won won the Eilis Dillon Best Newcomer Bisto Award and was also an International White Ravens’ Choice; and Ice Dreams (O’Brien Press, 2008). Her book One World Our World is a storybook for children in Ireland [...]
David Wheatley was born in Dublin in 1970. His collections are Thirst (Loughcrew, The Gallery Press, 1997), which won The Rooney Prize in 1998; Misery Hill (The Gallery Press, 2000); Mocker (The Gallery Press, 2006); and A Nest on the Waves (The Gallery Press, 2010). Stream and Gliding Sun: A Wicklow Anthology, and I Am [...]
