Gerard Beirne
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| Born | October 30, 1962 County Tipperary, Ireland |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Citizenship | Irish, Canadian |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Dublin |
| Notable awards | Sunday Tribune New Irish Writer of the Year, 1996 |
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| Children | 4, including Luke Francis Beirne |
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Gerard Beirne is an Irish author and literary editor. He is a fiction editor for The Fiddlehead and curates the online magazine The Irish Literary Times.[1]
In 2008, Beirne served as Writer in Residence at the University of New Brunswick, where he taught creative writing.[2] Beirne currently teaches on the BA Writing and Literature Program at the Atlantic Technological University in Sligo.
Awards and honours
[edit]In 1996, Beirne was awarded two Hennessey Literary Awards, "New Irish Writer of the Year" and "Best Emerging Fiction Writer".[3][4] His debut novel The Eskimo in the Net was short-listed for the 2004 Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award and was selected as Book of the Year by the Daily Express.[5] In 1997, Digging My Own Grave was runner-up for the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award.[6] In 2000, Bono starred in a short film adaptation of Beirne's story "Sightings of Bono." Beirne's collaboration with composer Siobhán Cleary, Hum, was called "a theatrical tour de force" by The Irish Times.[7] Beirne's first short story collection, In a Time of Drought and Hunger was shortlisted for the 2016 Danuta Gleed Literary Award.[8] That same year, he was shortlisted for the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards for his short story "What a River Remembers of its Course."[9]
Selected works
[edit]Novels
[edit]- The Eskimo in the Net. London: Marion Boyars, 2003.
- Turtle. Ottawa: Oberon, 2009.
- Charlie Tallulah. Ottawa: Oberon, 2013.
- The Thickness of Ice. Montreal: Baraka Books, 2024.
Short story collections
[edit]- In a Time of Drought and Hunger. Ottawa: Oberon, 2015.
Poetry
[edit]- Digging My Own Grave. Dublin: Dedalus, 1997.
- Games of Chance: A Gambler's Manual. Ottawa: Oberon, 2011.
- The Death Poems: Songs, Visions, Meditations. Cromer: Salt Publishing, 2023.
Theatre and film
[edit]- Hum! with Siobhán Cleary. Commissioned by Irish Chamber Orchestra 1998. Revived by the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra in 2020.
- Sightings of Bono. Parallel Productions, 2000. Starring Bono.
References
[edit]- ^ "Gerard Beirne - Poetry". Connotation Press. Retrieved 13 May 2015.
- ^ "Gerard Beirne". University of New Brunswick (unb.ca). BA, BAI (Trinity College Dublin), MFA (Eastern Washington University). Retrieved 13 May 2015.
- ^ "New Irish Writing – Hennessy Literary Awards: Winners through the decades". The Irish Times. Retrieved 23 August 2022.
- ^ "Gerard Beirne". Marion Boyars. Retrieved 23 August 2022.
- ^ "Gerard Beirne". Irish Writers Online. Archived from the original on 4 October 2009. Retrieved 27 January 2009.
- ^ "After this/ I lead you into form: Poems — Gerard Beirne". Numéro Cinq. 12 September 2012. Archived from the original on 15 March 2015. Retrieved 13 May 2015.
- ^ "Two Poems by Gerard Beirne". Harvard Divinity Bulletin. Retrieved 23 June 2021.
- ^ "Short-story award short list revealed". Winnipeg Free Press, June 11, 2016.
- ^ "Shortlists revealed for Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards 2016". The Irish Times. Retrieved 6 August 2022.
External links
[edit]- Gerard Beirne.com — official website.
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- Living people
- 20th-century Irish novelists
- 20th-century Irish male writers
- Irish male novelists
- 20th-century Irish poets
- Academic staff of the University of New Brunswick
- 1962 births
- Irish male poets
- 21st-century Irish novelists
- 20th-century Canadian novelists
- 21st-century Canadian novelists
- 21st-century Irish poets
- 20th-century Canadian poets
- 20th-century Canadian male writers
- 21st-century Canadian poets
- Canadian male poets
- Canadian male novelists
- Canadian male short story writers
- 21st-century Canadian short story writers
- Irish male short story writers
- 21st-century Irish short story writers
- Irish emigrants to Canada
- 20th-century Canadian short story writers
- 21st-century Canadian male writers