Walsh, Catherine

(1964- )

   Irish poet from Cork City who trained at the Samuel Beckett Drama Centre, Trinity College, Dublin. She won the Irish Times/ESB Best Actress of the Year Award 2002. More recently she appeared as Pegeen Mike in Playboy of the Western World and as Nora Burke in The Shadow of the Glen as part of Druid Theatre Company's acclaimed production DruidSynge for Galway Arts Festival and as part of Edinburgh International Festival 2005. She has appeared on the BBC TV, on Radio Telefís Éireann (RTE) and on BBC Radio. She co-edits hardPressed Poetry, an Irish poetry publishing and distributing company in Dublin, with Billy Mills. Her poetry publications: Macula, 1986. The Ca Pater Pillar Thing and More Besides, 1986. Making Tents, 1987. Short Stories, 1989. Pitch, 1994. Idir Eatortha and Making Tents, 1997. City West, 2005.

   Sources: Antholog y of Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry. Keith Tuma, ed. Oxford University Press, 2001. Biography of Catherine Walsh (http://www.irishwriters-online.com/catherinewalsh.html). Biography of Catherine Walsh (http://www.lisarichards.ie/actor_768.html). Other: British and Irish Poetry Since 1970. Richard Caddel and Peter Quartermain. ed. Wesleyan University Press, 1999. The Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry. 11th ed. The Columbia Granger's World of Poetry, Columbia University Press, 2005 (http://www.columbiagrangers.org).