Ronan Sheehan
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 [the] Irish and Indian colonial experience".[6]
Fiction
- The Tennis Players (Dublin, Co-Op Books, 1977);
- Boy with an injured eye (Tralee, Brandon Books, 1983);
- Foley's Asia (Dublin, The Lilliput Press, 1999).