Ciarán Collins
Ciarán Collins (born 1977 in Cork) is an Irish novelist and playwright. He won the 2013 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature for The Gamal, a dark novel set in a fictional town of Ballyronan in West Cork about an intense friendship of the eponymous narrator with fellow outsiders James and Sinéad. The traumatized teenager records his experiences as instructed by his psychiatrist.[1]
Life
[edit]He graduated from University College Cork. He teaches Irish and English at Hamilton High School, Bandon.[2] He participated in and is a fan of hurling, one of the two national sporting games of Ireland.
Works
[edit]- The Gamal. London: Bloomsbury Circus, 2013 ISBN 9781608198757 [3][4]
- Primal 2019 [5]
References
[edit]- ^ Fogarty, Anne (2015). "'It was like a baby crying': Representations of the Child in Contemporary Irish Fiction". Journal of Irish Studies. 30 (1): 13–26. JSTOR 43737506.
- ^ "A Question of Taste--Cork Writer Ciaran Collins". irishexaminer.com. Retrieved 6 January 2025.
- ^ "'The Gamal,' by Ciaran Collins". The New York Times. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
- ^ "The Gamal by Ciarán Collins – review | Books". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
- ^ "A question of taste - Cork writer Ciarán Collins". irishexaminer.com. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
External links
[edit]- "Ciarán Collins Author of The Gamal, Winner of The Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and Le Prix Des Lecteurs Escpades, Play, Primal, Cork Arts Theatre, Primal by Ciaran Collins, Cork". ciarancollinsauthor.com. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
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