Life
1959- ; b. Holycross, Co. Tipperary; ed. TCD; winner of Listowel under-21
writing competition; freelance journalist; commissioned biography of Countess
Markievicz: A Independent Life (1988); also a novel, One
Day as a Tiger (1997), a tale of genetic engineering in which Martin
Hawkins throws over career in TCD and returns to family farm in Tipperary;
winner of the Rooney Prize; poems, The Beauty of the Moon (1999);
issued The Far Side of A Kiss (2000), a novel telling the story
of Sarah Walker whom Hazlitt’s dealt with vengeful in his Libor
Amoris; lives in Ranelagh, Dublin, with her long-term friend Anthony
Cronin; judge in several literary awards inc. Irish Times Literature Prize,
2001.
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Works
Poetry, The Beauty of the Moon (London: Chatto & Windus
1999). Fiction, One Day as a Tiger (London: Chatto &
Windus 1997), 272pp., and Do. (NY: The Ecco Press 1988; Vintage
pb. 1998); The Far Side of a Kiss (London: Chatto & Windus
2000), 241pp. Biography, Countess Markievicz: A Independent
Life (London: Rivers Oram Press/Pandora 1988). Contrib. to Ladies
Night at Finbarr’s Hotel (London: Harcourt 2000).
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Criticism
Interview article, Shirley Kelly, ‘On Sheep and Golden Fleeces’,
in Books Ireland (feb. 1996), pp.9-10 [others as infra].
John Dunne, review of One Day as a Tiger (1997) in Books
Ireland (May 1997), p.122; pronounces it a ‘great book’;
finds the narrative, dialogue, and descriptions of the countryside perfect.
Eileen Battersby, review of The Far Side of a Kiss ([2001]), in The Irish Times, 16 June 2001, paperback review.
John Kenny, reviewing of Anne Haverty, The Far Side of a Kiss (2000), The Irish Times [Weekend], 19 Aug. 2000.
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Notes
Far Side of a Kiss (2000) was launched on 1 Sept.
2000; Haverty appeared in an Irish Times photograph with Tony Cronin and
Noel Pearson.
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)