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Books by Seamus Cashman
General publications
Proverbs & Sayings of Ireland (1974; 2001) - with
Sean Gaffney
Step Together: from Pillar to Spire – a proposal for Citizens Day
(2006)
Poetry collections
Carnival (Monarchline, 1988)
Clowns & Acrobats (Wolfhound Press, 2000)
That Morning Will Come: New
& Selected Poems (SalmonPoetry, 2007)
Anthologies for Young Readers
The Wolfhound Book of Irish Poems for Young People - Co-edited with Bridie Quinn (Wolfhound Press, 1975; 2000)
Something beginning with P: new poems from Irish poets –
Commissioned & edited (The O’Brien Press, 2004; pb edition due 2008)
Biography
Seamus Cashman comes from Conna
in county Cork
and studied at St Colman’s College, Fermoy, Maynooth
College and University College
Cork before spending some years teaching (and learning) in southern Tanzania, East Africa.
He founded Wolfhound Press, the leading Irish literary and cultural
publishing house, in Dublin
in 1974, and was publisher there until 2001.
He has three published poetry
collections, Carnival (Monarchline, 1988) and Clowns &
Acrobats (Wolfhound Press, 2000), and That Morning will Come: new and selected poems (SalmonPoetry,
2007. He compiled and edited two significant poetry anthologies for
children: the now classic historical collection, The Wolfhound Book of
Irish Poems for Young People (co-edited with Bridie Quinn, 1975; still
in print as Irish Poems for Yong People) and in 2004, he
commissioned and edited the award winning Something Beginning with P:
new poems from Irish poets for the O’Brien Press. He has undertaken
writing workshop residencies with Poetry Ireland in their Development
Education projects, including facilitating a children’s scriptwriting
project on the subject of child labour at Zion Primary School in 2005 and,
with poet and school principal Tom Conaty, co-directed the resulting
schoolchildren’s film, Stitched.
In addition to his own writing
and poetry, he currently works as a publishing and writing consultant, and
is chairman of the board of Children’s Books Ireland. He lives in Portmarnock, County Dublin.
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