Frank McGuinness is Professor of Creative Writing in University College Dublin. A world-renowned playwright, his first great stage hit was the highly acclaimed Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme. He is also a highly skilled adapter of plays by writers such as Ibsen, Sophocles, Brecht, and writer of several film scripts, including Dancing at Lughnasa, and he has published several anthologies of poetry.
Novels
Collections
Carthaginians And Baglady (poems) (1988)
Booterstown (poems) (1999)
The Sea with No Ships (poems) (1999)
The Stone Jug (poems) (2003)
Dulse (poems) (2007)
In a Town of Five Thousand People (poems) (2012)
Paprika (2018)
The Wedding Breakfast (poems) (2019)
May Twenty-second (poems) (2022)
The River Crana (poems) (2025)
Booterstown (poems) (1999)
The Sea with No Ships (poems) (1999)
The Stone Jug (poems) (2003)
Dulse (poems) (2007)
In a Town of Five Thousand People (poems) (2012)
Paprika (2018)
The Wedding Breakfast (poems) (2019)
May Twenty-second (poems) (2022)
The River Crana (poems) (2025)
Plays show
Frank McGuinness recommends
Conversation with the Sea (2025)
Hugo Hamilton
"Hugo Hamilton has written a magnificent book. Conversation with the Sea is as compulsive as it is lyrical, deeply moving, utterly readable, bursting with life. The plot is devious and seductive; the prose takes your breath away - it towers over contemporary fiction. A triumph."
Ghost Wedding (2025)
David Park
"A writer to cherish, a master of fiction in great form. A most splendid novel: lucid, luminous, with enough secrets to break your heart and hold you spellbound, Ghost Wedding from David Park is wonderful stuff indeed."
