Thomas McCarthy
For those interested in literature, [Poetry, Memory and the Party] is addictive reading material, offering unparalleled insight into the many joys and sundry frustrations of someone who determined early to devote himself to the pursuit of his literary vocation…. More detailed than a memoir, more compelling than an autobiography, a companion-piece to John McGahern’s Letters and Fintan O’Toole’s We Don’t Know Ourselves, the book gives an unrivalled account of life in Ireland over a 40-year period.
— Clíona Ní Riordain, The Irish Times
Thomas McCarthy was born in Cappoquin, County Waterford, in 1954. Educated at the local Convent of Mercy and at University College, Cork, he was a Fellow of the International Writing Program in Iowa in 1978/79. He worked at Cork City Libraries until 2014 when he withdrew to write full-time. His collections of poetry include The Sorrow Garden (1981), The Last Geraldine Officer (2009), Pandemonium (2016), Prophecy (2019) and Plenitude (2025). He has also published two novels, two books of non-fiction and his diaries, Poetry, Memory and the Party (2022). Awards include The Patrick Kavanagh Award, The Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize, The Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Award for Poetry and the Annual Literary Award of the Ireland Funds. He is a member of Aosdána and lives in Cork City. Questioning Ireland (Essays and Reviews) was published in September 2024.
Thomas McCarthy titles
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Questioning Ireland
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Poetry, Memory and the Party
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