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Conor O'Callaghan

Lecturer in Creative Writing

Research Interests

Conor O'Callaghan was born in Newry, Northern Ireland, in 1968. He grew up thirteen miles away, in Dundalk in the Republic of Ireland. To date he has published three original collections of poetry:The History of Rain(1993), shortlisted for the Forward 'Best First Collection' Prize and winner of the Patrick Kavanagh Award;Seatown(1999); andFiction(2005), a PBS Recommendation and shortlisted forThe Irish TimesPrize.

Apart from poetry, he has written extensively on sport.Red Mist— Roy Keane and Ireland's World Cup Civil War, a comic prose memoir of the public furore surrounding Ireland's involvement in the 2002 World Cup, appeared from Bloomsbury in 2004. A film adaptation, part documentary and part animation, was screened last year on Setanta TV.

For three years he directed the annual Poetry Now, Ireland's only international poetry festival. He has also taught in North America, as both 2004 Heimbold Chair in Irish Studies, Villanova University, Pennsylvania, and visiting poet at Wake Forest University, North Carolina, from 2005-7.

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