Sheila O'Hagan

Sheila O’Hagan was a Dublin based writer and poet. Sheila O'Hagan began writing poetry in 1984 while studying at Birkbeck College, London University.[1] She is a teacher of Creative Writing and reviewer, has given a workshop in Wormwood scrubs prison and was Writer-in-residence for County Kildare.

She won the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Awardin 1991, the Goldsmith Award for Poetry in 1988, the Hennessey/Sunday Tribune Award for New Irish Poet of the Year in 1992 [2] and the Listowel Writers Week, 1990/1998.[3] She died on the 30th December 2017.

As a mentor and encourager, Sheila O'Hagan was a prominent presence on the Dublin writing scene during the 1990s and onwards for about fifteen years. She ran what became known as "The St. Stephen's Green Writers' Workshop" at her apartment on St. Stephen's Green, which included many published, or about-to-be-published, and/or prize-winning authors, among them Tom French, Jean O'Brien, John O'Donnell, Mary O'Donnell, Eugene O'Connell, Clar Ni Aonghusa and Alison Maxwell.

Poetry Books

  • The Peacock’s Eye (Salmon Publishing, 1992)
  • The Troubled House (Salmon Publishing, 1995)
  • Along the Liffey: Poems & Short Stories (Salmon Poetry, 2009)

References

  1. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-02-01. Retrieved 2009-11-14.
  2. ↑ http://www.ricorso.net/rx/az-data/index.htm
  3. ↑ http://www.iol.ie/~iwc/OW.html



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