Dónal Ó hÉalaithe
Saolaíodh D. Ó É. ar na Millíní, baile fearann i bparóiste Bhaile Mhuirne sa bhlian 1933. Feirmeóirí a mhuintir agus bhí feirm bheag aca ann ar leacain an tsléibhe. Bhí ceathrar sa chlann, triúr iníon agus an t-aon mhac amháin –Dómhnall. Chuaigh se ar Scoil Bharr D Ínse agu ba léir ón gcead lá ann ‘do...
Michael O’Loughlin
Michael O’Loughlin was born in Dublin in 1958. In the 1970s he founded Raven Arts Press with Dermot Bolger. He has published five collections of poetry, the most recent of which is In This Life, recently published by New Island. He has written screenplays for many feature films, and is also active as a critic...
Charlie Bird
Charlie Bird was born in Sandymount, Dublin in 1949. He was recruited into RTÉ by Eoghan Harris in the mid 1970s. For many years in the 1990s, Bird was the only point of contact between RTÉ and the Provisional IRA. He witnessed at first hand the ceasefires and the subsequent twists and turns of the peace process. In 1998,...
Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh
Rugadh Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh i nDún Síon, taobh amuigh den Daingean i gContae Chiarraí sa bhliain 1930, an ceathrú as ochtar clainne. Mar a bhí coitianta sna laethanta seo, ní raibh raidió ar bith sa tigh, ach fuair sé a chéad bhlas de agus é ag éisteacht le ceann de chuid na ndaoine béal-dorais sa...
Eddie Lenihan
When Eddie Lenihan, “Ireland’s greatest living storyteller”, appeared in Irish national television’s 12-part series ‘Storyteller’ in 1986, most of those seeing and hearing him were doing so for the first time. However, two further series titled ‘Ten Minute Tales’ in 1987 and 1988 changed all that for good. But what viewers did not know was that...
