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Jack Gilligan – Chairman |
Jack Gilligan has worked in arts administration for approximately twenty five years. He served as Dublin City Arts Officer for sixteen years up to his retirement in October 2009. He was responsible for the preparation, negotiation and management of the annual arts programming budget and the delivery of the city’s arts service. He initiated and managed an Artist in Residence programme involving writers, musicians, dancers, film-makers and visual artists. Jack played a key role in the establishment of The LAB arts centre which opened, under his management, in 2005. He established the highly successful Dublin Writers' Festival which celebrates the best of Irish and international writing and has become a major international literary event. |
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Catherine Dunne – Deputy |
Catherine Dunne is the author of six novels and one work of non-fiction. Her last novel Set in Stone was published by Macmillan in October 2009 and Catherine will be launching her latest novel Missing Julia at the Irish Writers' Centre on Friday 24th September.
She has been shortlisted for several prizes, including the Kerry Fiction Prize, and won the International Award at Vigevano, Italy, in 2006. Her work is widely translated and has been optioned for television. Catherine has taught creative writing for the Irish Writers' Centre, Dublin City Council, Writers' Week Listowel and the Arvon Foundation in the UK. |
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Andrew Clarke – Treasurer |
Andrew is a chartered accountant, registered tax adviser and a graduate in economics & politics from Cambridge University. He retired as a partner from Horwath Bastow Charleton Chartered Accountants in April 2007 after having been managing partner for 10 years. He is a former President of the Irish Taxation Institute and of CFE- the European tax adviser body - which represents 180,000 members across the EU. He is on the board of a number of Irish companies, including the Institute of International & European Affairs. Although not a writer himself he has an interest in making use of his commercial experience to do whatever he can to support the work of the IWC. |
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June Considine – Secretary |
June Considine was born in Dublin and is the author of fifteen novels for adults and children. Her most recent novel The Prodigal Sister, published internationally by Avon/Harper Collins in June 2009, was written under her pen name Laura Elliot. She has also worked as a freelance journalist and magazine editor. Her novels include When The Bough Breaks and Deceptions (New Island). Her books for children include The Luvender Trilogy, View from a Blind Bridge, The Glass Triangle, and the Beachwood series for young adults (Poolbeg Press). She is currently working on her latest novel Stolen Child (Avon/ Harper Collins) due for publication in 2010. Her short stories have appeared in a number of anthologies and featured on RTE’s Fiction 15 series. |
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Mícheál Ó Ruairc – Rúnaí |
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Mícheál Ó Ruairc was born in Brandon, Co. Kerry in 1953 and has been living in Dublin since 1980. He retired from teaching in 2009 and is now a fulltime writer. He has published extensively and his works include poetry collections, novels, children’s fiction, short stories, reviews, articles, regular columns and extensive writing in the field of education. He has won numerous awards for his poetry and prose including first prize in the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown Poetry Competition (2007), first prize in the Oireachtas on three separate occasions for fiction for adults and young people and the main Oireachtas prize for a collection of short stories (2009). Amongst his publications are Fuil Samhraidh (1987); Humane Killing (1992); Dán is Céad ón Leitriúch (1998); Trasna na dTonnta (2001); An bhFaca Éinne Agaibh Roy Keane (2003); An Saol i Sladbhaile (2008) and his first collection of short stories, Daoine a Itheann Daoine, due to be published in 2010. |
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Jack Harte |
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Jack was born in Killeenduff, Co Sligo, in 1944 and grew up in Lanesboro, Co Longford. His short story collections are Murphy in the Underworld (1986), Birds and Other Tails (1996), and From Under Gogol's Nose (2004). A CD of his stories and songs, Lament for the Birds, was released in 2004. Collections of his stories in translation have appeared in Russia, India and Bulgaria. He had a novella, Homage, published in 1992. His first novel, In the wake of the Bagger, commissioned under the Government's Per Cent for Art scheme, was published in 2006. The following year his second novel, Reflections in a Tar-Barrel, was published in Bulgarian translation before appearing in English in 2008. For many years Jack worked as Principal of Lucan Community College |
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Éilís Ní Dhuibhne |
Éilís Ní Dhuibhne is a novelist and short story writer, who writes both in Irish and English. She has written more than twenty books, including The Dancers Dancing, Fox Swallow Scarecrow, and Dun an Airgid. Her writing has won several literary awards, including the Bisto Book of the Year Award, the Stewart Parker Award for Drama, and several Oireachtas awards for books as Gaeilge. The Dancers Dancing was shortlisted for the Orange Prize. Eilis has taught creative writing in the Irish Writers' Centre and currently teaches on the MA in Creative Writing in UCD and the Faber Academy. |
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Máire Nic Mhaoláin |
| Studied the Celtic languages, Latin and French at QUB. Researched aspects of Old Irish prose, with an emphasis on early laws. Worked on Irish language corpus in ITÉ. For many years Editor in An Gúm (Irish-language publishing house attached to Dept. of Education) working on dictionaries, terminology, textbooks and general literature, much of which was in translation. Taught translation in the University of Ulster (in addition to lexicographical work on a major English-Irish dictionary) and in DCU. Has translated literary works from various languages to Irish, and written for Irish radio and magazines. Served on ITIA Professional Membership Subcommittee. Máire was awarded Honorary Membership of the ITIA in 2005 for her contribution to translation in Ireland. |
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Sorcha de Brún |
Sorcha de Brún is a member of the Irish Writers’ Union, and is currently completing her PhD on contemporary Gaeltacht prose writing in the Department of Modern Irish in the National University of Ireland Maynooth. She has published essays on aspects of the Irish language translation of Dracula in Bliainiris, and on the place of Irish language literature in the Curriculum. Some of her poetry for children has been published in the anthology Seo, Siúd agus Uile (An Gúm, 2009), and a short story for children appeared in the collectionSin Scéal Eile (An Gúm, 2011). She was the President of the Irish jury for the European Prize for Literature (Ireland) in 2009. She has won several awards for prose, including the Máirtín Ó Cadhain short story competition and Duais Foras na Gaeilge.
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