Susan Connolly
Susan Connolly was born in Drogheda, Co. Louth in 1956.
Her principal collections
For the Stranger (Dublin, Dedalus Press,1993); and, with Anne-Marie Moroney, Stone and Tree Sheltering Water: An Exploration of Sacred and Secular Wells in Co. Louth (Flax Mill, 1998). Other short
collections include How High the Moon (Poetry Ireland/Co-operation North
1991); Race to the Sea (Flax Mill, 1999); Ogham: Ancestors Remembered in Stone (Flax Mill, 2000); A
Salmon in the Pool (Tearmann, 2001), a literary and placenames map of the
river Boyne from source to sea.
She was awarded the Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh
Fellowship in Poetry in 2001.
She lives in Drogheda.