Brian Lynch (Irish writer)
Brian Lynch | |
|---|---|
| Born | Brian Lynch 1945 Dublin, Ireland |
| Occupation | Poet, Writer |
Brian Lynch is an Irish writer of poetry, plays, fiction and other mediums.[1]
Life
[edit]Brian Lynch was born in Dublin in 1945 and continues to live there.
He worked as a journalist for the Evening Press and The Hibernia Magazine. He was an advisor to the Irish government. During the 1970s, he was a spokesman for Attorney General of Ireland Declan Costello. He participated in the Sunningdale Conference in 1973.[1]
He writes poetry, plays, fiction and other material. He established and edited The Holy Door, a literary journal, which published such writers as W.H. Auden, Anthony Cronin, Aidan Higgins and Patrick Kavanagh.[2]
He established Duras Press, an independent literary publisher.[3]
Works
[edit]Poetry
[edit]- Endsville (with Paul Durcan) (Dublin: New Writers’ Press 1967), 59pp.;
- Beds of Down (Dublin: Raven Arts 1983), 46pp.;
- Sixty-Five Poems [of] Paul Celan (trans., with Peter Jankowsky) (Dublin: Raven Arts 1985), 88pp.;
- No Die Cast (New Writers’ Co-op. 1969), [12]pp. [ltd. edn. 75];
- Outside the Pheasantry (Gorey: Funge Arts Centre 1976), 16pp., ill. [by Paul Funge];
- Perpetual Star (Dublin: Raven Arts 1980), 47pp.;
- Voices from the Nettle-way (Dublin: Raven Arts 1989), 60pp.;
- Poesie a Lerici (TCD: Dept. of Italian 2003), 59pp. [chapbook of reading in Lerici, Spezia];
- New and Revised: Poems 1967-2004 (Dublin: New Island Press 2004), 120pp.;
- Pity for the Wicked, with a preface by Conor Cruise O’Brien (Dublin [Killiney]: Duras Press 2005), 78pp.
Fiction
[edit]- The Winner of Sorrow (Dublin: New Island Press 2005), 300pp.
- The Woman Not the Name (Dublin: Duras Press 2013), 342pp.
Plays
[edit]- Crooked in the Car Seat (Dublin Th. Fest. 1979);
- Days Lost Behind the Curtain (1985);
- Caught in a Free State (1983) [screenplay about German spies in Ireland];
- Love and Rage (1999), dir. Cathal Black.
Awards
[edit]- Member, Aosdána
- 1979: Crooked in the Car Seat nominated in the Best Play category of the Harvey's Theatre Awards
- 2005: The Winner of Sorrow shortlisted for the Hughes & Hughes Irish Book Awards.[4]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b "Brian Lynch". Ricorso. Retrieved 25 October 2020.
- ^ The Holy Door. OCLC 3295628. Retrieved 25 October 2020 – via WorldCat.
- ^ "Welcome". The Duras Press. Retrieved 25 October 2020.
- ^ "Brian Lynch". Irish Playography. Retrieved 25 October 2020.