About Philip Casey

Posted on March 11, 2007 | Category: Page

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Philip Casey

Literary Bio

Philip Casey was born to Irish parents in London in 1950 and grew up in Co Wexford.

His verse collections are
Those Distant Summers (Dublin, Raven Arts Press, 1980); After Thunder (Raven Arts Press, 1985); The Year of the Knife Poems 1980-1990, (Raven Arts Press Dublin, 1991); and Dialogue in Fading Light/New and Selected Poems (Dublin, New Island Books, 2005).

His play, Cardinal, was performed in Hamburg in 1990.

His novels are The Fabulists (Dublin, The Lilliput Press, 1994/ London, Serif Books, 1995); The Water Star (London, Picador, 1999); and The Fisher Child (Picador, 2001), which completes The Bann River Trilogy.

He has been a recipient of an Arts Council/An Chomairle Éalaíon Bursary for Literature, and was awarded the inaugural Kerry Ingredients/ Listowel Writers’ Week Novel of the Year Award (1995) for The Fabulists.
A member of Aosdána he tends to Irish Writers Online and other websites in his spare time.
He lives in Dublin.


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Short Bio for editors

Philip Casey has published four collections of poetry, including Dialogue in Fading Light (New Island Books, 2005), and three novels, The Fabulists (Lilliput 1994), The Water Star (Picador, 1991) and The Fisher Child (Picador, 2001). He is currently writing The Book of Rights – The Story of Irish Slavery and Servitude.
Among his websites are www.philipcasey.com, http://blog.philipcasey.com, www.irishwriters-online.com, and www.irishcultureguide.ie.
He’s a member of Aosdána and lives in Dublin.

Note Bene

Both the novel The Fabulists and my last poetry collection are available for free (under a Creative Commons license) at Irish Literary Revival, a sister site of PhilipCasey.com, co-founded by poet Patrick Chapman and Philip Casey.

Philip Casey’s books at amazon.co.uk

The Water Star and The Fisher Child at Pan MacMillan (parent of Picador) website

ABOUT PHILIPCASEY.COM

philipcasey.com is the home page of Irish writer Philip Casey.

Sister Sites

Slimming for the Beach – general news and blog.

Irish Literary Revival This is where out-of-print and out-of-circulation Irish books are brought back into the world. Although our name is a pun, our intentions are serious…. (note: this site was co-founded with Patrick Chapman)

Irish Culture Guide a collection of over 1,000 links to websites of Irish Cultural interest.

alternative party – no, not a political party but I site I use to tease out certain ideas about the future of Irish political and eco life.

Ubuntu Learner – which tracks my experience in learning to use Linux through Ubuntu. I may also siphon off the Freeware and Open Source section of philipcasey.com into this. Please note I’ve changed the url for this from philipcasey.com/ubuntu to http://ubuntu.philipcasey.com

Irish Writers Online with about 570 entries, a concise bio-bibliographical record of Irish writers


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