Life
1937- ; b. in Castlebar, Co. Mayo; ed. local National School, then Mallow and Waterford Training College; teacher in 1958; attended UCD.
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Works
Novels, Kelly (1981); Festival of Fools (1984); The Hungry Land (1986); Rites of Inheritance (1990); The House of Mirrors (1992). Children’s Fiction, Sea Wolves from the North (1983; rep. Wolfhound 1995); Barney the Hedgehog (Dublin: Children’s Press 1989), 96 pp.; The Viking Princess (Dublin: Poolbeg 1989); The Flight of the Earls (1991); Michelangelo (Dublin: Poolbeg 1994); also An tOileán Órga (Coiscéim 1994), 128pp.; The Midnight Country (London: HarperCollins 1995), 512pp. [passion and betrayal set in turn-of-the-century Vienna]. Also Díoltas (Coiscéim 2005), 207pp.
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