PLAYS:'Actors';'Wednesday';
'No Earthly Pole.'
NOVELS: 'Picture of a Girl in a Spanish
Hat';'Atalanta';'Mapping God/Le Tracé de Dieu.'
STORIES:'Keeping The Night Watch'.
POETRY: 'Life and Death in the Midlands;' 'A Scarce Light';'Browne';'Measuring Angles'; 'True North'; 'Song at The Edge of the World';'Paris Without Maps;'Being Anywhere - New & Selected Poems.'
Recipient of a Hennessy Literary Award in 1972 and of numerous bursaries, including the 'Prix de l'Ambassade(2000)'to translate a French poet.With Peter Sheridan and Neil Jordan, founded the Irish Writers' Co-operative in the 'Seventies. Teaches Creative Writing as part of the Adult Education programme of Galway University and have read my work widely in this country, in Paris and the universities of Toulouse and Poitiers, France. A musician, I have produced a solo album, 'Get You,' and two traditional music albums with the group, Parsons Hat, 'Cutty Wren' and 'The Better Match'. Will be writer-in-residence to the Princess Grace Irish Library at Monaco in September 2004. Would like to see more cultural use made of our more literary-historic sites, such as Coole Parke and Thoor Ballylee, workplace of W.B. Yeats. Am interested also to establish a modest festival in Paris. Working on second solo album. I am also interested in encouraging local businesses in Galway to take a more positive role in sponsoring the work of the Western Writers' Centre {Ionad Scríbhneoiri Chaitlín Maude}. Like most poets, I am a frustrated visual artist and have unsucces fully tried to paint. I've acted also, in Dublin in the defunct Lantern Theatre, Merrion Square many years ago. I was a professional journalist for some years and worked also in PR, where I was active in the NUJ. My personal belief is that much Irish contemporary poetry is insular and needs to reach out - not to America, perhaps, as much as to Europe. Have just returned from a wonderful month-long stint as Writer-in-Residence to the Princess Grace Irish Library in the Principality of Monaco and my thanks to all there. We'll be returning there to Monaco this coming St Patrick's Day (2005) to perform our music at a special concert. We visited W.B. Yeats' old residence at Roquebrune and climbed up to his former grave-site in the old village; he was disinterred and taken back to Drumcliffe, in Sligo, Ireland, but in fact it's unlikely there's anything of Yeats buried there. On another tack: The malicious e-mails seem to have been stopped, perhaps by blocking and making other groups aware of them, but most likely because the sender finally sought professional help. {PHOTO SITE:http://uk.geocities.com/folksongman/FredPhotos.html}
