Philip Casey

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THE FABULISTS

cover art: Ed Miliano. Author image: Karina Casey
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genre :: Fiction
publisher :: The Lilliput Press
place & year :: Dublin, 1994
ISBN :: 1 874675 30 9
translations :: (German) Die Träumer von Dublin
ISBN: 344272404X btb Verlag, Munich, 1999
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status :: in print
copies available from :: The Lilliput Press (€7.50)
distinction :: It won the inaugural Kerry Ingredients Novel of the Year, (now the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award), as part of Listowel Writers’ Festival, 1995.

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Dialogue in Fading Light

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genre :: Poetry
publisher :: New Island Books
place & year :: Dublin, 2005
ISBN :: 1 904301 81 9
translations :: None
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status :: in print
copies available from :: Kennys

Contact:: librarian@irishliteraryrevival.com

Latest Publication

Dialogue in Fading Light

Websites

Philip Casey
The Fabulists
Slimming for the Beach
Irish Writers Online
Irish Culture Guide

Biographical Note

Philip Casey was born to Irish parents in London in 1950 and grew up in Co Wexford.

His verse collections are Those Distant Summers (Dublin, Raven Arts Press, 1980); After Thunder (Raven Arts Press, 1985); The Year of the Knife Poems 1980-1990, (Raven Arts Press Dublin, 1991); and Dialogue in Fading Light/New and Selected Poems (Dublin, New Island Books, 2005).

His play Cardinal, was performed in Hamburg in 1990.

His novels are The Fabulists (Dublin, The Lilliput Press, 1994/ London, Serif Books, 1995); The Water Star (London, Picador, 1999); and The Fisher Child (Picador, 2001), which completes The Bann River Trilogy.

He has been a recipient of an Arts Council/An Chomairle Éalaíon Bursary for Literature, and was awarded the inaugural Kerry Ingredients/Listowel Writers’ Week Novel of the Year Award (1995) for The Fabulists. A member of Aosdána, in his spare time he tends to Irish Writers Online and other websites, including the Irish Literary Revival which he founded with Patrick Chapman in 2006. He lives in Dublin.