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Brian Lynch is an Irish writer of poetry, plays, fiction and other mediums.[1]

Brian Lynch
Born	Brian Lynch 1945 Dublin, Ireland
Occupation	Poet, Writer

Life

Brian Lynch was born in Dublin in 1945 and continues to live there.

He worked as a journalist for the Evening Press and The Hibernia Magazine. He was an advisor to the Irish government. During the 1970s, he was a spokesman for Attorney General of Ireland Declan Costello. He participated in the Sunningdale Conference in 1973.[1]

He writes poetry, plays, fictions and other material. He established and edited The Holy Door, a literary journal, which published such writers as W.H. Auden, Anthony Cronin, Aidan Higgins and Patrick Kavanagh.[2]

He established Duras Press, an independent literary publisher.[3]

Works

Poetry

• Endsville (with Paul Durcan) (Dublin: New Writers’ Press 1967), 59pp.;
• Beds of Down (Dublin: Raven Arts 1983), 46pp.;
• Sixty-Five Poems [of] Paul Celan (trans., with Peter Jankowsky) (Dublin: Raven Arts 1985), 88pp.;
• No Die Cast (New Writers’ Co-op. 1969), [12]pp. [ltd. edn. 75];
• Outside the Pheasantry (Gorey: Funge Arts Centre 1976), 16pp., ill. [by Paul Funge];
• Perpetual Star (Dublin: Raven Arts 1980), 47pp.;
• Voices from the Nettle-way (Dublin: Raven Arts 1989), 60pp.;
• Poesie a Lerici (TCD: Dept. of Italian 2003), 59pp. [chapbook of reading in Lerici, Spezia];
• New and Revised: Poems 1967-2004 (Dublin: New Island Press 2004), 120pp.;
• Pity for the Wicked, with a preface by Conor Cruise O’Brien (Dublin [Killiney]: Duras Press 2005), 78pp.

Fiction

• The Winner of Sorrow (Dublin: New Island Press 2005), 300pp.
• The Woman Not the Name (Dublin: Duras Press 2013), 342pp.

Plays

• Crooked in the Car Seat (Dublin Th. Fest. 1979);
• Days Lost Behind the Curtain (1985);
• Caught in a Free State (1983) [screenplay about German spies in Ireland];
• Love and Rage (1999), dir. Cathal Black.

Awards

• Member, Aosdána
• 1979: Crooked in the Car Seat nominated in the Best Play category of the Harvey's Theatre Awards
• 2005: The Winner of Sorrow shortlisted for the Hughes & Hughes Irish Book Awards.[4]

See also

• List of Irish writers

References

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