Irish Writers' Centre - Peregrine Readings

Peregrine Readings


Reading 3 Irish Writers' Centre reading on Tuesday 1st November at 7.30pm

	Lee Dunne
	Lee Dunne is a novelist, playwright and short story writer. His debut novel 'Goodbye to the Hill' (1965) has sold well over a million copies and the stage adaptation became one of the longest-running plays in Irish theatre history. Now in his seventies, Lee Dunne lives in County Wicklow. His first novel Goodbye to the Hill has become a seminal novel of Dublin in the 50's. Paddy Maguire is Dead (1972) was originally banned for 32 years,but is now available with a gigantic defence against the indecent and obscene label it was given by the then Censorship Board by one of our great novelists John Broderick. Barleycorn Blues (2004) has received widespread praise and is currently being considered for a screenplay. Lee has also written two historical novels set in Ireland from 1892. Dancers of Fortune (2005) and Seasons of Destiny (2006), both of them receiving wonderful reviews.

	Leland Bardwell
	LELAND BARDWELL was born in India, grew up in Leixlip, Co Kildare and was educated in Dublin and London. As a fiction writer she has published five novels, the most recent being Mother to a Stranger (2002), as well as a volume of short stories, Different Kinds of Love (1986); as a playwright she has had work produced by RTÉ and the BBC, and her stage credits include No Regrets: The Life of Edith Piaf (1984) and Jocasta (2001). Since her first collection of poems The Mad Cyclist appeared in 1970, she has published three further collections, The Fly and the Bedbug (1984), Dostoevsky's Grave (Dedalus, 1993) and The White Beach (1998). A co-editor of the long-running literary magazine Cyphers, Leland Bardwell is a member of Aosdána and lives in Co. Sligo. In 2006 the Dedalus Press published her latest collection of poems, The Noise of Masonry Settling.

		Fred Johnston
		Fred Johnston was born in Belfast in 1951 and educated there and in Toronto, Canada. A co-founder of the Irish Writers' Co-operative in the 'Seventies, he founded Galway's Cúirt festival in 1986. A critic and playwright as well as poet and novelist, he received a Hennessy Literary Award for prose in 1972. Keeping The Night Watch, a collection of stories, was published by Collins Press some years ago and Orangeman, short stories translated into French by Kristian le Bras, appeared in France last year. He currently gives creative writing courses at NUIGalway as part of the Adult and Continued Learning Programme there and holds a monthly writers' 'clinic' in Limerick city. In 2004 he was writer-in-residence to the Princess Grace Irish Library at Monaco. A new collection of short stories will be published by Parthian Books (UK) this month. He lives and works in Galway with the Western Writers' Centre.

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