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Alan Titley is Professor of Modern Irish and Head of Department at University College Cork. He is the author of five novels, hundreds of stories, many plays and some poetry.
His Tagann Godot (‘Godot Turns Up’) was produced in the Abbey Peacock Theatre and has been translated into Italian, French and Russian. He has received the Butler Prize from The Irish-American Cultural Institute, The Pater Prize for International Drama from the Australian Academy for Arts and Sciences, The Éilís Dillon Award for Children’s Fiction, The Stewart Parker Award from the BBC, and the first prize for a film script from the Irish Film and Television Awards in 2007 for his documentary on Máirtín Ó Cadhain.
He has written extensively for radio and television, and has had his own radio programme on Irish writers for the last five years. He writes a weekly column on current and cultural affairs for The Irish Times and has lectured extensively on Irish literature and culture in many countries.
His scholarly work deals mainly with contemporary Irish and Scottish Gaelic literature. |
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