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Life
Author of Quintesse (1982), Mere Mortals (1989) and Breakfast with Sylvia (2005), novels; served as literary
editor of ‘New Writing’ section in Books Ireland from May 1996; issued authorised biography of Francis Stuart (2008).
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Works
Fiction, Quintesse (NY:
St. Martin's/Marek 1982 [1985]), 174pp; Mere Mortals (Dublin: Poolbeg Press [with Odell & Adair] 1989),
v, 216pp.; A Horse Called El Dorado (Dublin: O'Brien Press 2005), 141pp. [children]
Poetry, Plainchant for a Sundering (Belfast: Lapwing Press 2001), 36pp.; Breakfast with Sylvia (Belfast: Lagan Press 2005), 62pp.
Journalism, ed., The Belle: A Quarterly Journal of Belles-lettres (Dublin: Foxrock 1978-79) [published from 68 Foxrock Park, Dublin 18].
Criticism, Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Dublin: Liffey 2008), 376pp.; also num. reviews in Books Ireland incl. review of works on Flann O’Brien and Irish Modernism in Books Ireland (Feb. 1996), pp.19-20 and reviews of Words Alone by Roy Foster, and works on Northern poetry, and Colm McCann, in Books Ireland (Oct. 2011).
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