Philip Casey was born to Irish parents in London in 1950 and grew up in Co Wexford.
His publications include a chapbook, The Planets and Stars
Become Friends, (Gorey, The Funge Arts Centre, 1974); and three collections of verse: Those Distant Summers (Dublin, Raven Arts Press, 1980); After Thunder (Raven Arts Press, 1985); and The Year of the Knife Poems 1980-1990, (Raven Arts Press Dublin, 1991).
A fourth collection, Dialogue in Fading Light, was published by New Island Books in November
2005.
His play Cardinal, was performed in Hamburg in 1990.
He has published three novels,
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.
Die Träumer von Dublin, the German translation of The Fabulists, was published by btb/Goldmann Verlag, Munich, in 1999.
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 initiated and maintains the web sites Irish Writers Online,
A Guide to Irish Culture,
and his personal site which you are now reading.
He lives in Dublin, Ireland.
