Liam Ó Muirthile (1950-2018)
‘A writer of great diversity and breadth, Liam Ó Muirthile pushed the boundaries of Irish language literature through his dynamic prose, poetry and his writing for stage . . . His work made an enormous impact on our cultural landscape.’
— Sheila Pratschke, The Arts Council
Liam Ó Muirthile was born in Cork City in 1950. He learned Irish at school and in the Irish speaking region of West Kerry. His first collection of poetry was Tine Chnámh in 1984 which received the Irish-American Cultural Institute’s literary award and the major Oireachtas prize for poetry.
He was a member of Aosdána and received the Butler Award in 1996 for his novel Ar Bhruach na Laoi, and both the Arts Council Prize and Gradam Chló Iar-Chonnacht for his third collection of poems Walking Time: agus Dánta Eile.
His published works include: Tine Chnámh (1984), An Peann Coitianta (1991), Ar Bhruach na Laoi (1995), An Peann Coitianta 2 (1997), Liodán na hAbhann (1999), Fear an Tae (1999), Walking Time: agus Dánta Eile (2000), Gaothán (2000), An Seileitleán (2004), Sister Elizabeth ag Eitilt (2005), Ar an bPeann (Winter 2005), Dánta Déanta (Winter 2005) and ÁÉÍÓÚ (Spring 2006).
Dialann Bothair (Poems in Irish) was published by The Gallery Press in 1992.
He died in Dublin in 2018.
Recent Gallery Press Titles
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Collected Poems
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The Limit of Light
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Washing Up
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Shallow Seas
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Plainchant
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The Talk of the Town
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The Kabul Olympics
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The Sea Field
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Double Negative
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Still Life
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The Mother House
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Pale Sister
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Selected Poems 1961-2017
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The Last Peacock
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Marine Cloud Brightening
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The Gravity Wave
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The Wedding Breakfast
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The Last Straw
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Aidan Carl Mathews was born in 1956 and educated at UCD, TCD, and Stanford University. He has published three collections of poetry, Windfalls, Minding Ruth (Gallery, 1983) and According to the Small Hours (1998). He has published short stories: Adventures in a Bathyscope (which was shortlisted for the GPA Award), Lipstick on the Host and Charlie Chaplin's Wishbone (2016, Lilliput) and a novel, Muesli at Midnight. Other awards include an Irish Times Award, Patrick Kavanagh Award, Macauley Fellowship and an Academy of American Poets Award.
His plays include Exit/Entrance (Gallery 1990), The Diamond Body, The Antigone, a new version of The House of Bernarda Alba and Communion (2003). He edited Immediate Man: Cuimhní ar Chearbhall Ó Dálaigh. He works as a radio drama producer in RTE.
Aidan Carl Mathews Titles
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Exit/Entrance
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Minding Ruth
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