Brendan Hamill (writer)

Brendan Hamill (born 1945, Belfast, Northern Ireland) is a poet and writer.

Career

Hamill was born and grew up in West Belfast. He worked for several years in England before returning to Northern Ireland to study for a degree in English at the New University of Ulster. He subsequently worked for several years as a teacher in Kilcullen, County Kildare and in Belfast.

He has published two poetry chapbooks - the first Emigrant Brother and the second Alameda Park.[1]

His poetry has been published in a wide range of newspapers and magazines including Phoenix, Belfast Telegraph, Irish Times and the Irish Press, included in anthologies [2] and read on both the BBC and RTÉ.

His critical work has been published in various magazines including Fortnight [3]

He spoke at the Launch of ‘The Literature of the Troubles Project’.[4] He read at the Belfast literary festival celebrating poet Padraic Fiacc.[5]

Works

  • Letter to America: poems on the 30 year war in N. Ireland, Glandore, 1998

Criticism

  • "Brendan Hamill on Fiacc", Krino (Summer 1995).

Anthologies

  • Laurel Holliday, ed. (1998). "Emigrant Brother". Children of the Troubles: Our Lives in the Crossfire of Northern Ireland. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-671-53738-8.

References

  1. ↑ "Brendan Hamill books". Retrieved 12 November 2016.
  2. ↑ "Children of the Troubles". Retrieved 12 November 2016.
  3. ↑ "Children of the Troubles". Retrieved 12 November 2016.
  4. ↑ http://www.stmarys-belfast.ac.uk/infoserv/press/?ArticleID=17156281233611&nq=1
  5. ↑ http://www.fiaccpoet.com/


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