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• Andrew Greeley
• Morgan Llywelyn
• Mary E. Lyons
• Regina McBride
• Malachy McCourt
• Jamie O'Neill
• Martin Roper
• Martin Roper
• Niall Williams
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2002 Irish Author Roundtable
 When March rolls around we all become a little bit Irish, but our guest authors are deeply attuned to their ancestral roots throughout the entire year. In our AuthorsOnTheWeb IRISH ROUNDTABLE Liam Clancy, Eoin Colfer, Marita Conlon-McKenna, Máire B. de Paor, Maureen Dezell, Emma Donoghue, Randy Lee Eickhoff, Andrew M. Greeley, Mary E. Lyons, Morgan Llywelyn, Regina McBride, Malachy McCourt, Jamie O'Neill, Martin Roper, and Niall Williams discuss what role their heritage has played in their writing, and their feelings on the humor, melancholy, and mysticism of the Gaelic soul.
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| Andrew Greeley |
Andrew M. Greeley, a native of Chicago, is a priest, distinguished sociologist, and bestselling author. He is a professor of social sciences at the University of Chicago and the University of Arizona, as well as Research Associate at the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago. His current sociological research focuses on current issues facing the Catholic Church including: celibacy of priests, ordination of women, religious imagination, and sexual behavior of Catholics. His many novels include, Irish Eyes, Irish Mist, A Christmas Wedding, A Midwinter's Tale, Contract with an Angel, The Bishop and the Missing L Train, and Irish Love.
Andrew Greeley's Website
Tor Books Website
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| Morgan Llywelyn |
Since 1976 Irish historian and internationally bestselling author Morgan Llywelyn has created an entire body of work chronicling the Celts and Ireland, from the earliest times to the present day. Her critically acclaimed novels, both of history and of mythology, have been translated into many languages and include THE HORSE GODDESS, BARD, RED BRANCH, PRIDE OF LIONS, 1921, 1916, THE ESSENTIAL LIBRARY FOR IRISH AMERICANS, and ETRUSCANS. Morgan Llywelyn now lives outside of Dublin, Ireland and has become an Irish citizen.
Morgan Llywelyn's Website
Tor Books Website
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| Mary E. Lyons |
Mary E. Lyons is the author of many acclaimed and award-winning books that bring to life the people and places of history. Among them are: Letters from A Slave Girl: The Story of Harriet Jacobs; The Poison Place; and Dear Ellen Bee: A Civil War Scrapbook of Two Union Spies. Mary E. Lyons is a former librarian and reading teacher. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, with her husband.
Mary Lyons' Website
Simon & Schuster Website
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| Regina McBride |
Regina McBride's poetry book, Yarrow Field, won an American Book Series Award. She is the recipient of fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts and The New York Foundation for the Arts. Her poems have been widely published in literary journals and magazines. She lives with her husband and daughter in New York City, where she teaches creative writing at Hunter College and at The Writer's Voice. This is her first novel.
Simon & Schuster Website
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| Malachy McCourt |
Malachy Mc Court, born in Brooklyn, raised in Limerick, Ireland. Managed to fail every subject in school except English and recess. Returned to the U.S. in '52, worked as a longshoreman, dishwasher and laborer. Became an actor and then established the first singles bar in America.
Malachy is the author of A Monk Swimming which was on the best seller lists for months in the U.S., in Europe and in Australia. His new book, Singing My Him Song, was published in October of 2000 by Harper Collins and the paperback was published in October, 2001.
He and his brother Frank developed, staged and acted in A Couple of Blaguards which is currently being performed in St. Petersburg, Florida.
He is happily married to Diana, is the proud father of five children, and the grandfather of three. Lives in New York Ciy where he also writes a weekly column for The West Side Spirit "Sez I To Myself".
Malachy McCourt's Website
HarperCollins Website
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| Jamie O'Neill |
Jamie O'Neill was brought up and educated in Dun Laoghaire, County Dublin, then lived in England, and has now returned to Galway, in Western Ireland. For the past ten years O'Neill worked as a night porter in a London psychiatric institution while writing and researching At Swim, Two Boys
Photo by Roderick Feld
Jamie O'Neill's Website
Simon & Schuster Website
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