Eoin O'Brien Editor, Illustrator & Author

Ethna MacCarthy was raised in an upper middle-class Catholic family in south county Dublin that was steeped in literary and cultural connections. Her poems appeared regularly in Dublin and London and featured in the important US anthology New Irish Poets (1948). Poems (2019) is the first collection of her poetry to appear. She died of throat cancer in 1959 in London. Eoin O'Brien is an acknowledged authority on cardiovascular medicine. He has also published widely on Irish writing and medical history including his innovative study of Samuel Beckett, The Beckett Country (1986) and The Weight of Compassion & Other Essays published by the Lilliput Press in 2012. Gerald Dawe is an Irish poet and Fellow Emeritus of Trinity College Dublin. Recent books of poetry include Mickey Finn's Air (2014), The Last Peacock (2019) and a collection of essays, The Wrong Country (2018). He edited the ground-breaking anthology, Earth Voices Whispering: Irish war poetry 1914-1945 (2008).