Ciarán Collins (born 1977 in
Cork
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) is an Irish novelist and playwright. He won the 2013
Rooney Prize for Irish Literature
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for ''The Gamal'', a dark novel set in a fictional town of Ballyronan in West Cork about an intense friendship of the eponymous narrator with fellow outsiders James and Sinéad. The traumatized teenager records his experiences as instructed by his psychiatrist.
Life
He graduated from
University College Cork
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The university was founded in 1845 as one of three Queen's Universit ...
. He teaches Irish and English at Hamilton High School,
Bandon.
He participated in and is a fan of
hurling
Hurling (, ') is an outdoor Team sport, team game of ancient Gaelic culture, Gaelic Irish origin, played by men and women. One of Ireland's native Gaelic games, it shares a number of features with Gaelic football, such as the field and goa ...
, one of the two national sporting games of Ireland.
Works
* ''The Gamal''. London: Bloomsbury Circus, 2013
* ''Primal'' 2019
References
External links
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Living people
Alumni of University College Cork
People from Bandon, County Cork
Writers from County Cork
21st-century Irish novelists
1977 births
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