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Wexford Writers

John Banville Billy Roche
Vincent Banville Frank Ronan
John Brennan Colm Toibin
Philip Casey Eamonn Wall
Anthony Cronin John Welcome (see John Brennan)

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John Banville - novelist (b.1945)

The Ark. Oldcastle, Co. Meath. Gallery Press for The Ark, 1996 ISBN : 1 85235 197 7 (limited edition)
Athena. Secker & Warburg, 1995
ISBN : 0 436 20222 0
Birchwood. New York, U.S.A. Norton & Co., 1973
ISBN : 0 393 08572 4
The Book of Evidence*. Secker & Warburg,
1989 ISBN : 0 436 03267 8
Doctor Copernicus#. Secker & Warburg, 1976
ISBN : 0 436 03263 5
Ghosts***. Minerva, 1993. ISBN : 0 7493 9979 1
Kepler##. Secker & Warburg, no date. ISBN : 0 436 03264 8
Long Lankin. Secker & Warburg, 1970 ISBN : 0 436 03260 0
Mefisto. Paladin / Grafton, 1987 ISBN : 0 586 08661 7
The Newton Letter. Secker & Warburg, 1982 ISBN : 0 436 03265 1
Nightspawn. Secker & Warburg, 1971 ISBN : 0 436 03261 9
The Untouchable. Picador, 1997 ISBN : 0 330 33931 1
# Winner of the Whitbread Prize, 1976 and of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, 1976
## Winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize, 1981
* Winner of the Guinness Peat Aviation Award 1989 and shortlisted for the Booker Prize, 1989
*** Shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, 1996

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Vincent Banville - novelist (b.1940) (pseudonym Vincent Lawrence)

Fiction:
Death by Design. Dublin. Wolfhound, 1993 ISBN : 0 86327 335 1
Death the Pale Rider. Dublin. Poolbeg, 1995 ISBN : 1 85371 528 X
Hennessy. Dublin. Children’s Poolbeg, 1991 ISBN : 1 85371 207 8
Hennessy Goes West. Dublin. Children’s Poolbeg, 1992 ISBN : 1 85371 135 7
Hennessy in Africa. Dublin. Poolbeg, 1992 ISBN : 1 853771 231 0
Hennessy Points the Way. Dublin. Poolbeg, 1993 ISBN : 1 85371 303 1
Hennessy to the Rescue. Dublin. Poolbeg, 1994 ISBN : 1 85371 188 8

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John Brennan - novelist, editor and prose writer (b. 1914) (pseudonym John Welcome)

Non-fiction:
Infamous Occasion. Joseph, 1980
Irish Horse-racing: An Illustrated History. Macmillan, 1982
Royal Stakes. Sinclair Stevenson, 1993. ISBN : 1 85619 294 6
Snaffles on Hunting. Lambourn, 1989
Snaffles on Racing & Point to Point. Lambourn, 1988
Fiction:
Bellary Bay. Hamish Hamilton, 1979
Go for Broke. Faber, 1972 ISBN : 0 571 09818 5
Grand National Slam. Hamish Hamilton, 1976 ISBN : 0 241 89338 0
A Painted Devil. Collins, 1988
Reasons of Hate. Collins, 1990
Run for Cover. Tom Stacey, 1973 ISBN : 0 85468 325 9

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Philip Casey - poet & novelist (b.1950) ireland.iol.ie/~phcasey/

Non-fiction:
Cardinal: a play - performed in Hamburg, in 1990
Those Distant Summers. 1980
The Year of the Knife: Poems 1980-1990. Dublin. Raven Arts Press, 1991
Fiction:
The Fabulists*. Dublin/London. Lilliput Pr/Serif Bks., 1994
* Winner of the Kerry Ingredients Literary Award 1995

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Anthony Cronin - biographer, poet, novelist (b.1928)

Non-fiction:
41 Sonnet - 82 Poems. Dublin. Raven Arts Press, 1981
Art for the People? Dublin. Raven Arts Press, 1988
Collected Poems, 1950 - 1973. Dublin. New Writers Press, 1973
Dead As Doornails: A Chronicle of Life. Dublin. Poolbeg, 1980
Heritage Now, Irish Literature in the English language. Dingle, Co. Kerry. Brandon, 1982
Ireland: A Week in the Life of a Nation. Century, 1986 ISBN : 0 7126 9518 4
An Irish Eye. Dingle, Co. Kerry. Brandon, 1985 No ISBN
Letter to an Englishman. Dublin. Raven Arts Press, 1985
New and Selected Poems. Manchester. Carcanet, 1982
No Laughing Matter: The Life and Times of Flann O'Brien. Grafton, 1989 ISBN : 0 246 12836 4
Poems. Cresset, 1957
A Question of Modernity: Essays on writing with special references to James Joyce and Samuel Beckett. Secker & Warburg, 1966
Reductionist Poem. Dublin. Raven Arts Press, 1980
Relationships. Dublin. New Island Bks., 1994 ISBN : 1 87459 706 5
Samuel Beckett, The Last Modernist. HarperCollins, 1996 ISBN : 0246 13769 X
Fiction:
Identity Papers. Dublin. Co-op Books, 1980 ISBN : 0 905441 23 0
The Life of Reilly. Secker & Warburg, 1964

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Billy Roche - playwright (b.1949)

Non-fiction:
Amphibians. Warner Chappell, 1992 ISBN : 0 85676 161 3
"The Belfry", in The Wexford trilogy. Nick Hern, 1992 ISBN : 1 85459 140 1
The Cavalcaders. Nick Hern, 1994 ISBN : 1 85459 2912 2
"A Handful of Stars"*, in First run. Nick Hern, 1989 ISBN : 1 85459 010 3
Poor Beast in the Rain**. Nick Hern, 1990 ISBN : 1 85459 053 7
Trojan Eddie a screen-play. Methuen Film in association with Channel Four, 1997
ISBN : 0 413 71800 X
Fiction:
Tumbling Down. Dublin. Wolfhound, 1986 ISBN : 0 86327 431 5
* received a Thames Television Bursary
** received a Thames Television Play of the Year Bursary Award

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Frank Ronan - novelist (b. 1963)

Fiction:
The Better Angel. Bloomsbury, 1992 ISBN : 0 7475 1151 9
Dixie Chicken. Hodder & Stoughton, 1995
Handsome Men Are Slightly Sunburnt. Sceptre, 1996 ISBN : 0 340 66075 9
Lovely. Sceptre, 1996 ISBN : 0 340 660 767
The Men Who Loved Evelyn Cotton*. Bloomsbury, 1989
A Picnic in Eden. Bloomsbury, 1991 ISBN : 07475 0909 3
* received a Thames Television Bursary
** received a Thames Television Play of the Year Bursary Award

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Colm Toibin - novelist & non-fiction writer (b. 1955)

Non-fiction:
Homage to Barcelona. Simon & Schuster,1990  ISBN : 0 671 71061 3
Martyrs and Metaphors. Dublin. Raven Arts Press, c.1987  ISBN : 1 85186 036 3
Sign of the Cross: travels in Catholic Europe. J. Cape, 1994  ISBN : 0 224 03767 6
The Trial of the Generals: Selected Journalism 1980-1990. Dublin. Raven Arts Press, 1990
ISBN : 1 85186 081 9
Walking Along the Border. Queen Anne Press, 1987 ISBN : 0 356 12886 5
(The paperpack edition of this book is titled Bad blood: a walk along the border. Vintage, 1994)
Fiction:
The Heather Blazing. Picador, 1992 ISBN : 0 330 32124 2
The South. Serpent’s Tail, 1990 ISBN : 1 85242 170 3
The Story of the Night. Picador, 1996 ISBN : 0 330 34017 4
Blackwater Lightship. London. Picador, 1999

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Eamonn Wall - poet & prose writer (b. 1955)

Non-fiction:
Dyckman - 200th Street. Cliffs of Moher, Co. Clare. Salmon, 1994
Fire Escape. New York, USA. Sunken-Isle Press, 1988 (Chap-book)
Iron Mountain Road. Cliffs of Moher, Co. Clare. Salmon, 1997
The Tame Goose. New York, USA. Hale Press, 1990 (Chap-book)

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