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Rooney Prize For Irish Literature
The Rooney Prize for Irish Literature was created in 1976 by the Irish American businessman Dan Rooney, owner and chairman of the NFL Pittsburgh Steelers franchise and former US Ambassador to Ireland. The prize is awarded to Irish writers aged under 40 who are published in Irish or English. Although often associated with individual books, it is intended to reward a body of work. Originally worth £750,"An Irishman's Diary", ''The Irish Times'', 7 May 1976. the current value of the prize is €10,000.Caroline Walsh, "Loose Leaves", ''The Irish Times'', 21 June 2008. List of recipients * 1976: Heno Magee * 1977: Desmond Hogan * 1978: Peter Sheridan * 1979: Kate Cruise O'Brien, ''A Gift Horse'' (short stories) * 1980: Bernard Farrell * 1981: Neil Jordan * 1982: Medbh McGuckian; Special prize awarded to Seán Ó Tuama and Thomas Kinsella for ''An Duanaire / Poems of the Dispossessed'' * 1983: Dorothy Nelson, ''In Night's City'' (novel) * 1984: Ronan Sheehan * 1985: Frank McGuin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Rooney
Daniel Milton Rooney (July 20, 1932 – April 13, 2017) was an American executive and diplomat best known for his association with the Pittsburgh Steelers, an American football team in the National Football League (NFL), and son of the Steelers' founder, Art Rooney. He held various roles within the organization, most notably as president, owner and chairman. Rooney implemented a philosophy and management style that emphasized open, practical and efficient management. The Steelers were very successful during his tenure, winning 15 division championships, eight AFC Championships, and an NFL record six Super Bowl Championships. In 2000, he was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame for his contributions to the game. He was also credited with spearheading a requirement that NFL teams with head coach and general manager vacancies interview at least one minority candidate, which has become known as the "Rooney Rule". Outside of football, Rooney served as the United States Ambassador ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elgy Gillespie
Elgy F. Gillespie (born 1950) is an English-born Irish journalist and author. Early life Gillespie was born in London in 1950, to a Belfast father and an Anglo-German mother. She came to Dublin aged 17, reading English at Trinity College, Dublin. Career Gillespie wrote for ''The Irish Times'' between 1971 and 1986, for columns including "Women First". Personal life Gillespie left Ireland in 1986, and has lived in the U.S. since, mostly in San Francisco. In 2018, she received treatment for an oligodendroglioma Oligodendrogliomas are a type of glioma that are believed to originate from the oligodendrocytes of the brain or from a glial precursor cell. They occur primarily in adults (9.4% of all primary brain and central nervous system tumors) but are also .... Bibliography Irish topics *''The Flat-Dweller's Companion'' (1972) *''The Liberties of Dublin'' (1973; editor) *''The Country Life Picture Book of Ireland'' (1982) *''Portraits of the Irish'' (1986, with Liam Blake) *''C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One Day As A Tiger
''One Day as a Tiger'' is the first novel by Irish author Anne Haverty. Published in 1997 it was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award that year and won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. Title As explained in the preface to the book, the title comes from a Tibetan proverb: ::''It is better to have lived one day as a tiger than a thousand years as a sheep.'' Plot After the death of his parents in a road accident as they travelled to visit him, Marty leaves his academic career at Trinity College, Dublin and returns to the family farm in County Tipperary, where he has an uncertain relationship with his brother Pierce, and becomes increasingly infatuated by Etti, his sister-in-law. Marty also finds his heart moved my Missy, a genetically engineered sheep who refuses to associate with the rest of the flock and enjoys "music, porridge and laconic stories".Back cover, Vintage edition, 1998, Eventually Etti and Marty travel to France with Missy in order to ensure he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Haverty
Anne Haverty (born 1959) is an Irish novelist and poet.Literary Ark :: Participants :: ANNE HAVERTY Retrieved 2016-03-11. Haverty was educated at Trinity College Dublin and the Sorbonne and in 1992 won a scholarship to the European Film School at Ebeltoft in Denmark. Among Haverty's novels, '' One Day as a Tiger'' won the in 1997. Biography Anne Haverty was born in , |
Mike McCormack (writer)
Mike McCormack (born 1965) is an Irish novelist and short-story writer. He has published two collections of short stories, '' Getting It In the Head'' and '' Forensic Songs'' and three novels - '' Crowe's Requiem,'' '' Notes from a Coma'' and ''Solar Bones''. He has been described as "a disgracefully neglected writer". McCormack was born in London. He grew up on a farm in Louisburgh, County Mayo, and studied English and philosophy at UCG. In 1996, he was awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. In 1998, ''Getting It In the Head'' was voted a ''New York Times'' Notable Book of the Year. A story from the collection, "The Terms", was adapted into an award-winning short film directed by Johnny O'Reilly. In 2006, '' Notes from a Coma'' was shortlisted for the Irish Book of the Year Award. In 2010, John Waters in ''The Irish Times'' described it as "the greatest Irish novel of the decade just ended". It took McCormack seven years to write the book. In May 2016, Dublin publish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip MacCann
Philip MacCann is a British author. Born in Manchester, he was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and studied creative writing at the University of East Anglia under Malcolm Bradbury. His first book, ''The Miracle Shed'' (1995), a collection of short stories, won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, and in 2000 he was awarded the Shiva Naipaul Memorial Prize. In the 1990s he was a literary journalist for the Guardian newspaper and the Spectator magazine and contributed frequently to Prospect Magazine and others. It was here that he made public a distinct classical aesthetic, statements about the ethical shortcomings of Art and he became known for his acerbic criticism of consumer capitalism. Even before the Miracle Shed was published he wrote in The Guardian of his reluctance to continue publishing literary art in what was much more than a populist climate: a culture oppressed and vandalized by the abuse of corporate power. His first short stories appeared in Faber's First ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colum McCann
Colum McCann is an Irish writer of literary fiction. He was born in Dublin, Ireland, and now lives in New York. He is a Thomas Hunter Writer in Residence at Hunter College, New York. McCann's work has been published in over 40 languages, and has appeared in ''The New York Times'', ''New Yorker'', '' Esquire'', ''Paris Review'', ''The Atlantic Monthly'', ''Granta'', as well as other international publications. McCann is the author of seven novels, including ''TransAtlantic'' (2013) and the National Book Award-winning '' Let the Great World Spin'' (2009). He has also written three collections of short stories, including ''Thirteen Ways of Looking'', released in October 2015. Early life McCann was born in 1965 in Dublin and studied journalism in the former College of Commerce in Rathmines, which became part of the Dublin Institute of Technology and which became the Technological University Dublin in 2019. He became a reporter for ''The Irish Press'' Group, and had his own column ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugo Hamilton (writer)
Hugo P. Hamilton (born Johannes Ó hUrmoltaigh, 28 January 1953) is an Irish people, Irish writer. Hamilton was born and raised in Dublin with an Irish father and a German mother. Hamilton has written plays, short stories, novels and memoirs. Life Hamilton's mother was a German Roman Catholic who travelled to Ireland in 1949 on a pilgrimage, married an Irishman, and settled in the country. His father was a strict nationalist who insisted that his children should speak only German or Irish language, Irish, but not English, a prohibition the young Hugo resisted inwardly. "The prohibition against English made me see that language as a challenge. Even as a child I spoke to the walls in English and secretly rehearsed dialogue I heard outside," he wrote later.Hugo Hamilton, "Speaking to the walls in English", ''Powells.com'', undated. As a consequence of this, he grew up with three languages – English, Irish and German – and a sense of never really belonging to any: "There were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Enright
Anne Teresa Enright (born 11 October 1962) is an Irish writer. She has published seven novels, many short stories and a non-fiction work called ''Making Babies: Stumbling into Motherhood'', about the birth of her two children. Her writing explores themes such as family, love, identity and motherhood. Enright won the 2007 Man Booker Prize for her fourth novel '' The Gathering''. Her second novel, ''What Are You Like?'', was shortlisted in the novel category of the 2000 Whitbread Awards. Early life Anne Enright was born in Dublin, Ireland, and was educated at St Louis High School, Rathmines. She won an international scholarship to Lester B. Pearson United World College of the Pacific in Victoria, British Columbia, where she studied for an International Baccalaureate for two years. She then completed a BA in English and Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin. She began writing in earnest when she was given an electric typewriter for her 21st birthday. She won a Chevening Scholars ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Dorcey
Mary Dorcey (born in 1950) is an Irish poet, novelist, short story writer, feminist and LGBTQIA+ activist. She was a former writer in residence at Trinity College Dublin and the Women's Education, Research and Resource Centre of University College Dublin. She has been described as a lyric poet who celebrates the life of the emotions and senses. She speaks of her fiction work as exploring the intimate space between social structures and individual imagination. Clodagh Corcoran in ''The Irish Times'' described her novel ''Biography of Desire'' as "arguably the first truly erotic Irish novel." Biography Dorcey was born in County Dublin, Ireland, in 1950. She attended Paris Diderot University in Paris, France, and then Open University. She is a research associate at Trinity College Dublin, where for ten years she was a writer in residence at the Centre for Gender and Women's Studies. During this time, she conducted seminars on contemporary English literature and led a creative writ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ripley Bogle
''Ripley Bogle'' is the debut novel of Northern Irish author Robert McLiam Wilson, published in 1989 in the UK although not until 1998 in the US. Written when he was 26 it is arguably his most acclaimed, winning the Rooney Prize and the Hughes Prize in 1989, and a Betty Trask Award and the Irish Book Awards the following year. Many elements of the novel are autobiographical; the author himself was born in Belfast, attended Cambridge University, dropped out and became homeless. It is regarded as a significant novel, producing "both a re-evaluation of Northern Irish literary identity, and an alternative perspective on the Troubles." Plot introduction The novel is set over four days in London, where homeless 22-year-old Ripley Bogle aimlessly wanders the streets and, with angry satire, reflects on his life, directly addressing the reader. There are frequent flashbacks to growing up on the Turf Lodge estate in West Belfast during The Troubles, his move to Cambridge University and hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert McLiam Wilson
Robert McLiam Wilson (born Robert Wilson, 24 February 1964) is a Northern Irish novelist. Biography He was born in the New Lodge district of Belfast and then moved to Turf Lodge and other places in the city. He attended St Malachy's College and studied English at St Catharine's College, Cambridge; however, he dropped out and, for a short time, was homeless. This period of his life profoundly affected his later life and influenced his works. Wilson moved to Paris where he writes for ''Charlie Hebdo'' and ''Libération''. He also writes occasionally for ''The Guardian'', ''Corriere della Sera'' and ''Le Monde''. Work McLiam Wilson has written three novels: *'' Ripley Bogle'' (1989) *''Manfred's Pain'' (1992) *'' Eureka Street'' (1996) ''Ripley Bogle'' is a novel about a homeless man in London. ''Eureka Street'' focuses on the lives of two Belfast friends, one Catholic and one Protestant, shortly before and after the IRA ceasefires in 1994. A BBC TV adaptation of '' Eureka S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
