Chapters and Verse Lunchtime Reading

dublin | arts and media | event notice Monday July 07, 2008 17:09 by Sarah Lundberg - The Seven Towers Agency sarah at seventowers dot ie

With Noel Ó Briain and Hugh McFadden

At Chapters of Parnell St, Dublin 1, Wednesday 16 July at 1.15

Noel Ó Briain was born in Tralee in Kerry, grew up in Dublin and now resides in Camolin, Co Wexford. He has worked as an actor, director, producer and designer and was head of drama in RTE for a period up to 1988. His first collection of poetry Scattering Day, 21 Sonnets and Other Poems was published by Seven Towers in 2007.

Hugh McFadden is an Irish poet, literary editor and freelance journalist.

He was born in Derry, lived briefly there and in County Donegal, before moving to Dublin. There he was educated at the Synge Street CBS and at UCD, where he studied English, History and Political Science for his BA degree.

He earned an MA degree in Modern History at UCD and was a Tutor in the History Department there in the 1960s and early 1970s. Later, he was a Tutor in Politics at UCD and a Lecturer in Journalism at the DIT.

For many years he was a journalist and subeditor at the The Irish Press. At one point he was Assistant Chief Sub-Editor to the novelist John Banville's Chief Sub-Editor. He regularly reviewed books for the Press Group of papers, as well as Hibernia magazine, The Irish Independent, The Irish Times and The Sunday Tribune.

He was a History Researcher with The Irish Manuscripts Commission and an Editorial Assistant on The Correspondence of Daniel O'Connell (8 volumes). He is the executor of the literary estate of John Jordan, and has edited Jordan's Collected Poems (Dedalus Press, 1991), Collected Stories (Poolbeg Press, 1991), Selected Prose: Crystal Clear (Lilliput Press, Dublin, 2006) and The Selected Poems of John Jordan (Dedalus Press, February 2008).

Three collections of his own poems have been published, the most recent being Elegies and Epiphanies: Selected Poems (Lagan Press, Belfast, 2005. His previous collections are: Cities of Mirrors (Beaver Row Press, Dublin, 1984), and Pieces of Time (Lapwing Publications, Belfast, 2004). McFadden is currently working on a new book of poems (Atomic Shadows).