Gerard Beirne | |
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Born | County Tipperary, Ireland | October 30, 1962
Nationality | Irish |
Citizenship | Irish, Canadian |
Alma mater | Trinity College, Dublin |
Notable awards | Sunday Tribune New Irish Writer of the Year, 1996 |
Spouse | |
Children | 4, including Luke Francis Beirne |
Website | |
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Gerard Beirne is an Irish author and literary editor. He is a fiction editor for The Fiddlehead and curates the online magazine The Irish Literary Times.[1]
In 2008, Beirne served as Writer in Residence at the University of New Brunswick, where he taught creative writing.[2] Beirne currently teaches on the BA Writing and Literature Program at the Atlantic Technological University in Sligo.