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'''Ronan Sheehan''' is an [[Irish]] novellist, short story writer and essayist. <ref>[http://www.irishwriters-online.com/ronansheehan.html Irish Writers Online]</ref>. He founded the [[Irish Writers Co-operative]] in the 1970s<ref>[http://www.pgil-eirdata.org/html/pgil_datasets/authors/s/Sheehan,R/life.htm Life of Ronan Sheehan]</ref> and received the [[Rooney Prize for Irish Literature]] in 1984.<ref>[http://www.lilliputpress.ie/listbook.html?oid=2732890 Lilliput Press]</ref>. Until 2005 he was a practicing lawyer in Dublin, specialising in copyright law.<ref>[http://www.centrumlatinitatis.org/letteratura/ronan/Ronan_curriculum.pdf Centrum Latinitatis CV for Ronan Sheehan]</ref>. He is currently tasked with the translation of the works of [[Catallus]] into English.<ref>[http://www.centrumlatinitatis.org/letteratura/ronan/indice.htm Centrum Latinatis Catallus project]</ref> |
[[image:RonanSheehan.jpg|right|thumb|[[Ronan Sheehan]] at the [[West Port Book Festival]]]]'''Ronan Sheehan''' is an [[Irish]] novellist, short story writer and essayist. <ref>[http://www.irishwriters-online.com/ronansheehan.html Irish Writers Online]</ref>. He founded the [[Irish Writers Co-operative]] in the 1970s<ref>[http://www.pgil-eirdata.org/html/pgil_datasets/authors/s/Sheehan,R/life.htm Life of Ronan Sheehan]</ref> and received the [[Rooney Prize for Irish Literature]] in 1984.<ref>[http://www.lilliputpress.ie/listbook.html?oid=2732890 Lilliput Press]</ref>. Until 2005 he was a practicing lawyer in Dublin, specialising in copyright law.<ref>[http://www.centrumlatinitatis.org/letteratura/ronan/Ronan_curriculum.pdf Centrum Latinitatis CV for Ronan Sheehan]</ref>. He is currently tasked with the translation of the works of [[Catallus]] into English.<ref>[http://www.centrumlatinitatis.org/letteratura/ronan/indice.htm Centrum Latinatis Catallus project]</ref> |
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[[Neil Jordan]], the Irish filmmaker, called his ''Foley's Asia'' "A meditation on arms, oppression and empire, <nowiki>[offering]</nowiki> a unique insight into Irish and Indian colonial experience".<ref>[http://www.lilliputpress.ie/listbook.html?oid=2732890 Lilliput Press Quotes]</ref> |
[[Neil Jordan]], the Irish filmmaker, called his ''Foley's Asia'' "A meditation on arms, oppression and empire, <nowiki>[offering]</nowiki> a unique insight into Irish and Indian colonial experience".<ref>[http://www.lilliputpress.ie/listbook.html?oid=2732890 Lilliput Press Quotes]</ref> |
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Revision as of 11:14, 20 August 2008
Ronan Sheehan is an Irish novellist, short story writer and essayist. [1]. He founded the Irish Writers Co-operative in the 1970s[2] and received the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature in 1984.[3]. Until 2005 he was a practicing lawyer in Dublin, specialising in copyright law.[4]. He is currently tasked with the translation of the works of Catallus into English.[5]
Neil Jordan, the Irish filmmaker, called his Foley's Asia "A meditation on arms, oppression and empire, [offering] a unique insight into Irish and Indian colonial experience".[6]
Fiction
- The Tennis Players (Dublin, Co-Op Books, 1977);
- Boy with an injured eye
- Foley's Asia (Dublin, The Lilliput Press, 1999).