Padraig Rooney (born 1956) is an
Irish poet
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, short-story writer and
novelist
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who was born in
Monaghan
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The population of the town as of the 2022 cen ...
,
Ireland
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.
Life
Rooney was born in Monaghan, Ireland and studied at
Maynooth College
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and at the Sorbonne. He has travelled extensively all his life, living in Paris, Bangkok, Yokohama, Rome, Budapest and, latterly, in Switzerland. He was the recipient of two Irish Arts Council bursaries. He has taught abroad for many years and currently resides in
Switzerland
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as an
IB English teacher.
His poems and stories have appeared in ''Best Irish Short Stories 2 & 3'' (Paul Elek, 1977, 1978), ''Phoenix Irish Short Stories'', ''Scanning the Century: The Penguin Book of Poetry in the Twentieth Century'' (Penguin Viking, 1999), ''Haiku World: An International Poetry Almanac'' (Kodansha International, 1996), ''The Haiku Seasons'' (Kodansha International, 1996), ''The Backyards of Heaven: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry'' (2003), ''Dancing With Kitty Stobling: The Patrick Kavanagh Award Winners 1971-2003'' (Lilliput Press, 2004) and ''Our Shared Japan: An Anthology of Contemporary Irish Poetry'' (Dedalus, 2007).
He won the
Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award
The Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award is an Irish poetry award for a collection of poems by an author who has not previously been published in collected form. It is confined to poets born on the island of Ireland, or who have Irish nationality, or are ...
in 1986, the Poetry Business Book & Pamphlet Competition in 2005 and the Strokestown International Poetry Prize in 2009.
Publications
Poetry books
*In The Bonsai Garden (Raven Arts Press, 1988)
*The Escape Artist (Smith/Doorstop Books, 2006)
*The Fever Wards (Salt Publishing, 2010)
Novels
*Oasis (Poolbeg Press 1982)
Non-fiction
* The Gilded Chalet (Nicholas Brealey, 2015)
Notes and references
External links
*https://web.archive.org/web/20010308175653/http://irishwriters-online.com/padraigrooney.html
*http://www.gallerypress.com/Authors/Psirr/psirr.html
*http://padraigrooney.com
1956 births
Irish poets
Living people
Alumni of St Patrick's College, Maynooth
Writers from County Monaghan
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