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Fr. Raymond Murray
Raymond Murray is crusader for human rights in Northern Ireland. With Denis Faul he is co-author of 33 books and pamphlets on violations of human rights. His books The SAS in Ireland traces the history of the British Army Special Air Service Regiment, the SAS, in Ireland over the past twenty years. It details their activities - intelligence gathering and surveillance, their links with British intelligence, notably MI5 and MI6, their connection with sectarian murders and many other deaths. |
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David Axelrod
Long Island's newest Poet Laureate, appointed to serve from 2007 to 2009. He is an author and sponsor of international writers' programs covering dozens of countries and nearly forty languages. He has performed and taught as an author and educator lecturing in England, France, Sicily, Italy, Serbia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Croatia, Hong Kong and throughout the People's Republic of China.
Himself a student of 10 languages, author of 16 books, his work has been translated and published in numerous languages including Albanian and Bulgarian, Chinese and Japanese, Hebrew and Yiddish, Italian and Sicilian, Greek and Macedonian, Russian and Romanian, French and Creole, Spanish and Portuguese, German and Dutch among others!
As founder and director of Writers Unlimited Agency, Inc., David Axelrod continues to provide information on the writing arts. In that capacity he also publishes arts books under the imprint of Writers Ink Press. More recently he founded 3WS, World-Wide Writers Services, a network for authors and editors aiding international publication and exchange.
David will read in Monasterevin House 3.30, Tuesday 24th.; and at the Festival Club on Thursday 25th at 10.00 pm. |
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Desmond Egan
Bred, born and reared in Athlone, Desmond Egan's close identification with the town emerged in his Collection Athlone? (1980).
A full-time writer, Desmond has had 18 collections of his poems have been published; one collection of Prose; two translations from the Greek. Two books of Criticism about his Work have been published in the USA where a video documentary has also been made for TV. Eighteen books of translations of his work have been published all across Europe and in Japan and Russia. Egan has been the recipient of a number of awards notably The National Poetry of USA Award (1983) and the Bologna Literary Award (1998). In 1999, he received an Honorary Doctorate from Washburn University.
In 2000, a short poem of his was chosen for The Poet's Garden in Annascaul, Co. Kerry where it is inscribed on a stone seat. In the same year, his poem Peace was translated in 24 languages as a poem of the millennium.
Desmond is a founder and Artistic Director of The Gerard Manley Hopkins International Summer School (last week in July each year).
Desmond reads his poem PEACe at the Medellin Poetry Festival.
Desmond Egan reads his poem, PEACE at the Medellin International Poetry Festival
Desmond reads at 4.30 on Wednesday 25th July
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Peter Denman
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Peter Denman's books include a collection of poems, The Poet's Manual, and
his poems and translations have been published in periodicals in Ireland,
the UK and the US. He is a member of the Department of English at NUI
Maynooth, and Dean of Arts, Celtic Studies and Philosophy. A former editor
of Poetry Ireland Review, he has written extensively on Irish writing and
poetry.
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Neil Donnelly
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Neil Donnelly's plays for theatre include The Station Master (Edinburgh, 1974); Upstarts (Dublin, The Abbey Theatre, The Peacock stage, 1980); Silver Dollar Boys (Dublin,The Peacock, 1981); Flying Home (The Peacock, 1983); Chalk Farm Blues (The Peacock, 1984); Boys of Summer (Dublin, The Gaeity Theatre, 1985); Blindfold (Dublin, Team Theatre-in-Education, Dublin Theatre Festival 1986 [commissioned by Amnesty International]); Goodbye Curraroe (The Peacock Theatre, 1989); The Reel McCoy (The Peacock, 1989); The Duty Master (1995); Women Without Men (Prosperous, Co Kildare, 1995). His radio plays are Rotunda Blue (BBC Radio 3, 1983); The Loop (RTÉ 1987); and The Big Drop for BBC Radio 4. He has also written for the screen. Four of his theatre plays have been published: The Station Master (London, Corgi Books, 1982); Upstarts (Dublin, Co-Op Books, 1981); The Silver Dollar Boys (Co-Op Books 1982), and The Duty Master (USA, Syracuse University Press, 1996, as part of the anthology New Plays from the Abbey Theatre). He has been Writer-in-Association at The Abbey Theatre 1994/95, and is a member of Aosdána .
Neil reads at The Festival Club on Monday 23rd at 9.30 pm. and also at 8 pm. on Tuesday 24th. in The Festival Club. |
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Anatoly Kudriavitsky
Anatoly (Anthony) Kudryavitsky was born in 1954 in Moscow of a Polish father and half-Irish mother.
Educated at Moscow Medical University, he later studied Irish history and cultural heritage. Having lived in Russia and Germany, he now lives in Dublin and teaches creative writing to aspiring authors from Ireland's minority ethnic communities.
He has published a number of short stories, seven collections of Russian poems and two books of poems in English:
Shadow of Time (Goldsmith, 2005) and Morning at Mount Ring (DOGHOUSE Books, 2007).
His anthology of contemporary Russian poetry in English translation entitled A Night in the Nabokov Hotel was published in 2006 by Dedalus Press. In the same year he founded the Irish Haiku Society, of which he is chairman. He is also editor of Shamrock Haiku Society.
Anatoly's haiku have been published in magazines nationally and internationally and have been translated into Japanese and Croatian. |
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Shizue Ogawa
Shizue Graduated from the master's course of Doshisha Women's College with a degree in English Literature. Specialized in the poetry of the English Romantic poet John Keats.
In 1999 Shizue Ogawa's Japanese-English collection of poems Water - A Soul at Play (I) was published. A CD version appreared in 2000 readings by Shizue Ogawa in Japanese with translator, Donna Tamaki. 2005 saw her second collection of Japanese-English poems, Flames - A Soul at Play (II), with an accompanying CD.
Shizue was chosen to read at the opening ceremony at the Liege International Biennial of Poetry in 2005 and to read at the 2005 EU-Japan Year of People-to-People Exchanges in Brussels.
At present, Shizue Ogawa teaches English at Kansai University. She lives in Shiga Prefecture, western Japan, with her husband, a medical doctor. |
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Petros Mastoris
Born in Greece, Petros Mastoris went to the United States where he has resided in Chicago since 1955
His first publication was back in 1962 when he wrote and produced a play titled " One Way ". In 1992 he started publishing poetry. " Messages ", was followed in 1993 by" Visions ". In 1995 was the book titled " Waves " followed by " Healing of the Soul " in 2003. The most recent publication of poetry is the book called " Satire Opportunities " published in 2004.
Petros is currently working on his next poetry book called " Healing of the Soul " which will be published in 2009.
Petros is a member of the "Pan-Hellenic Association of Poetry" and the "International Association of Greek Writers". A variety of his poems where chosen to be published in Newspapers and Magazines throughout Greece and the United States.
In August of 2007 Petros was invited to attend and participate in a reading of his poems at the 1 st Annual Qinghai International Poetry Festival held in Qinghai Lake, China. Petros has been honored numerous times by Peers and Poets from Both Greece and the United States. |
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