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'A terrific first novel; fresh, sparky, yet deeply felt.' - Edna O'Brien 'A lyrical account of childhood ... reminiscent of Pat McCabe's The Butcher Boy.' - Ireland on Sunday Mogue published his second book A Moth at the Glass in 2004. His third book is completed, and due to be published in 2005. He is currently working on his fourth. Mogue Doyle has been in the building trade most of his life. He and his family live in Enniscorthy, County Wexford, Ireland.
1977: Mike began professional career with Maura O ’Connell in a duo called TUMBLEWEED performing a mixture of American Country songs from, Gram Parsons, Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris, Richard and Linda Thomson, Neil Young and a few of Mikes own compositions. 1979: Joined Stocktons Wing on the recording of their second Album ‘TAKE A CHANCE ’ the title taken from one of Mike ’s songs. 1982: Wrote all six songs on Stockton ’s Wing ’s ground breaking and critically acclaimed Album ‘Light in the Western Sky ’ including hit songs ‘BEAUTIFUL AFFAIR ’ and ‘WALK AWAY ’. 1985: The Wing release their best selling album to date Stockton ’s Wing Live ‘Take One ’ again featuring Mike ’s songs.Over the following ten years other albums were to follow including ‘American Special ’,‘Full Flight ’,‘Celtic Roots Revival ’ and ‘The Crooked Rose ’.These albums included Other hit songs by Mike such as,‘Avondale ’,‘One Step Closer ’,‘Hey Marsha ’,‘Why Wait until Tomorrow ’ and ‘So Many Miles Away ’. 1994: Mike leaves Stocktons Wing to pursue solo career and also tour and record with Finbar Furey throughout the UK. 1995:‘SOMEONE LIKE YOU ’ His first solo album is released in Germany,,Switzerland and Holland.All the time Mike continues to tour as a solo artist. 1997: RONNIE DREW invites Mike to perform with him on his one-man show ‘RONNIE I HARDLY KNEW YA ’.The show proved great success beginning with a seven week run at Andrews Lane Theatre in Dublin,followed by appearances throughout Ireland and the UK including the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 1998,Israel,Hungary,The Chech Republic, Denmark,Finland and the USA. 1999: Produced and Arranged Ronnie ’s latest CD ‘The Humour Is On Me Now ’ 2000/1: Musical Director for the Ronnie Drew and Eleanor Shanley collaboration Touring Ireland, Germany, Denmark, Holland and Belgium. 2001: Ronnie Drew and Eleanor Shanley live CD ‘A Couple More Years ’ 2001: Mike ’s composition ‘Beautiful Affair ’ voted into Top 75 Irish songs in the history of RTE radio 2002: New CD produced by Sonny Condell called ‘WHAT YOU KNOW ’ Other commitments
One of Ireland’s foremost music and
pop culture writers, Peter Murphy (b. 1968, Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford) got a
taste for journalism at the age of 17 when he won first place in an EU sponsored
competition for young essayists. After ten days of being wined, dined and
chauffeured around Europe on someone else’s tab, the only proviso being that
he file a report at the end of it, he figured this was the way to live. But first, he had to get the rock
‘n’ roll bug out of his system, and spent most of the next decade playing
drums with a succession of bands. He quit music to become a journalist in 1996,
quickly establishing himself as a senior contributor to Hot Press. Since then he has written over 30
cover stories for the magazine, accumulating a portfolio of interviews that
includes Lou Reed, Patti Smith, Nick Cave, Willie Nelson, Radiohead, Public
Enemy, Shane MacGowan, George Clinton, Sonic Youth, Television, Henry Rollins,
PJ Harvey, Richard Hell, David Johansen, Warren Zevon, Wim Wenders, Will Self,
William Gibson, Tobias Wolff, Bruce Robinson, Billy Bob Thornton, FW De Klerk
and many others. His work has also appeared in the
Bloodaxe Books anthology Dublines, the Sunday Independent
(Ireland) plus international publications such as Rolling Stone
(Australia) and Request (US). Miscellaneous assignments include writing
the programme notes for jazz legend Miles Davis’ art exhibition hosted by the
Davis Gallery in Dublin (2000), collaborations with cult author JT LeRoy for the
American magazine Razor (2002), and co-producing Revelations, a
two-hour radio documentary about The Frames (2003). He is frequently employed as a
rent-a-mouth by the BBC and Irish national radio and television, is a
contributor to the online archive Rocksbackpages.com and more recently
gave a talk entitled Nocturnal Emissions at the ReJoyce symposium in the
National College of Ireland, tracing the influence of James Joyce’s writings
on Irish music. Peter has also been invited to contribute an essay to the liner
notes of the 2004 remastered edition of Harry Smith’s Anthology Of American
Folk Music. He is currently writing his first novel. "Peter
Murphy spits and it comes out a rainbow."
Poetry
Ireland Review
has said of Eamonn’s work: “His poems are charged with a thoroughly
contemporary and a profoundly literary awareness of what it means to be Irish,
and a writer, in America”.
Gerard Whelan was born in Enniscorthy, County Wexford, where he now lives. He is the author of several books for children and is a multiple award-winner. The Guns of Easter, his first novel, won a Bisto Merit Award and the Eilis Dillon Award for first-time writers. Dream Invader was the overall winner of the Bisto Book of the Year Award 1998, and War Children won the Reading Association of Ireland Award 2003. Other books by Gerard Whelan include A Winter of Spies (sequel to The Guns of Easter) and Out of Nowhere. |
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Philip
Casey was born to Irish parents in London in 1950 and grew up in County 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). His play Cardinal, was performed in Hamburg in 1990.
Acclaim for Mogue Doyle's first book Dancing with Minnie The Twig
Mike
was born Ennis, County Clare. He is currently chairman of 
John
Murphy is originally from Wexford, but now lives in 
Eamonn
Wall