History And Heritage

Benedict Kiely

‘Ben Kiely, for me, is in the company of the great ones of the story form: a select club that includes people like Chekhov, Maupassant, Hemingway, Eudora Welty, Peter Taylor’
Ronan Farren, Sunday Independent

‘I am immediately envious of those who are coming to Kiely for the first time. The discovery of a master, of a writer of the first magnitude, is of extreme importance.’ Colum McCann

BENEDICT KIELY was born in 1919 in Dromore, County Tyrone and raised in nearby Omagh. He began his career in Dublin, writing for various journals, and is former critic for the Irish Independent and Literary Editor of the Irish Press. His career has spanned six decades and he has received the Award for Literature from the Irish Academy of Letters. He is the author of many novels including Land Without Stars, Call For A Miracle, Nothing Happens in Carmincross, and God’s Own Country; and two volumes of memoirs, Drink to the Bird and The Waves Behind Us, both published by Methuen. His Collected Stories were published by Methuen in 2001. Benedict Kiely died on 9th February 2007 and is buried in the Dublin Road Cemetry.

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