Writing (MA)

Burke Kennedy, Mary-Elizabeth—Playwright and founder-director of StoryTellers Theatre Company. Author of "Cross My Heart", "Curigh the Shape Shifter", "The Golden Goose", "The Parrot", "Wind of the World" and many translations and adaptations. Teaches playwrights' workshop. 

Carey, Dan—Graduate of McGill University, Trinity College Dublin, and Oxford  University where he took his D.Phil. His book on Locke, Shaftesbury, and Hutcheson: Contesting Diversity in the Enlightenment and Beyond appeared with Cambridge University Press in 2006, and he is currently completing a cultural history of travel in the Renaissance for Columbia University Press. He has published in a range of interdisciplinary journals on literature, the history of philosophy, history of science, anthropology, and travel. His teaching interests include Renaissance literature, Shakespeare, Renaissance drama, the eighteenth century, and Romanticism. 

Carney, Kieran—Playwright and screenwriter.  Author of the play "Afters" (London, 1995), co-author of RTE series "Bachelor's Walk" (2003), and author of "Hidalgo,⦡mp;euro;? RTE series.   Co-author and director, Zonad,   a feature film (2009).   Teaches workshop in adaptation for the screen. 

Frazier, Adrian—English Department, NUI Galway.  Programme Director.  Author of Behind the Scenes: Yeats, Horniman, and the Struggle for the Abbey Theatre (1990) and George Moore 1852-1933 (2000) and editor of "Irish Theatre", the Irish review 9Autumn 2002), and Playboys of the Western Wold: Production Histories (2005), and Hollywood Irish: John Ford, Abbey Actors, and the Irish Revival in the Movies (forthcoming). Teaches Reviewing, Discovering the Archives, Nonfiction Workshop, and convenes the Writers Seminar. 

Gorman, Michael—Director of International Writer's summer course run, NUI Galway.  Author of Up She Flew (1991).  Co-teaches poetry workshop with Mary O'Malley. 

Kenny, John—English Department, NUI Galway. Author of a study of John Banville for Irish Academic Press (2008). Regularly reviews contemporary Irish fiction for the TLS and Irish Times.   Director of the John McGahern Summer School.  Director of the BA Connect (Writing).   Teaches Reviewing and Discovering the Archives.

Lonergan, Patrick—English Department, NUI Galway. Reviews Editor of   I rish Theatre Magazine, webmaster for the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures (IASIL), programmes editor for the Dublin Theatre Festival 2005 and 2006, and theatre critic for publications including The Irish Times. Author of Theatre and Globalization: Irish Drama in the Celtic Tiger Era. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. Winner - Theatre Book Prize 2008.   Editor of three other books on Irish theatre.   Teaches Reviewing and Theatre as a Creative Industry.

McCormack, Mike—Author of Getting it in the Head (1995), for which he won the Rooney Prize; Crowe's Requiem (1998); and Notes from a Coma (2005).  Teaches course in fiction-writing. 

O'Dwyer, Riana—English Department, NUI Galway.  One of the section editors of the Field Day Anthology, vol.5, and author of
many articles on women's writing: Introduction to Woman and Her Master (1840) by Lady Sydney Morgan, Volume I in series Irish Women's Writing, 1839-1888 (1998), "The Imagination of Women's Reality: The Theatre of Christina Reid and Marina Carr" in Theatre Stuff: Critical Essays on Contemporary Irish Theatre (2000), and '"There was a kind lady called Gregory"' in Reflections at Coole: The Lady Gregory Autumn Gathering (2000).  Teaches Irish Playwrights Since the 1960s.

O 'Malley, Mary—Author of Consideration of Silk (1990); Where the Rocks Float (1993); The Knife in the Wave (1997); and The Boning Hall (Carcanet Press, 2002).  She received a Hennessy Award in 1990.  She is a member of Aosdana.  Co-teaches poetry workshop with Mickey Gorman. 

Pilkington, Lionel—English Department, NUI Galway. Author of Theatre and the State in 20thC Ireland: Cultivating the People (2001) and many articles, including "Theatre History and the Beginnings of the Irish National Theatre Project", in Theatre Stuff: Critical Essays on Contemporary Irish Theatre (2000) and "Irish Theater Historiography and Political Resistance", Staging Resistance:  Essays on Political Theater (1998). Currently writing a monograph entitled Theatricality, Agency and Irish Cultural Politics, 1900-2000.  Teaches Discovering the Archives and Theatre and Modernity in the Irish Revival. 

Woods, Joe—Print and Media Journalist. Formerly staff of MA in Journalism, NUI Galway. Teaches Feature-Writing and Crime-Reporting