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Conor
O'Callaghan was born in Newry, County Down, in 1968, and grew
up in Dundalk. The History of Rain, published by The Gallery
Press in 1993, was shortlisted for the Forward 'Best First Collection'
Prize and won the Patrick Kavanagh Award.
Seatown was published in 1999 and his third collection Fiction, a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, appeared in April 2005. He has been writer-in-residence at University
College Dublin and Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, and
co-holder of the Heimbold Chair in Irish Studies, Villanova University,
Pennsylvania. He was also director of the annual Poetry Now festival
in Dun Laoghaire from 2000-2003. Apart from poetry, he has written widely on sport.
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His
radio documentary on cricket in Ireland, 'The Season', was produced
by Dick Warner in 1996 and has been repeated several times. A further
essay, 'Jolly Good Shot Old Boy', appeared in the anthology Playing
the Field: Eleven Irish Writers on Sport (New Island 2000). 'One-One',
his comic prose memoir of the public furore surrounding Ireland's
involvement in the 2002 football World Cup that appeared in The
Dublin Review, eventually became the book Red Mist - Roy Keane
and the Football Civil War (Bloomsbury 2004).
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