Gerard Beirne

Gerard Beirne
Born (1962-10-30) October 30, 1962
County Tipperary, Ireland
NationalityIrish
CitizenshipIrish, Canadian
Alma materTrinity College, Dublin
Notable awardsSunday Tribune New Irish Writer of the Year, 1996
Spouse
(m. 1989; div. 2015)
Children4, including Luke Francis Beirne

Gerard Beirne is an Irish author and literary editor. He is a fiction editor for The Fiddlehead and curates the online magazine The Irish Literary Times.

In 2008, Beirne served as Writer in Residence at the University of New Brunswick, where he taught creative writing. Beirne currently teaches on the BA Writing and Literature Program at the Atlantic Technological University in Sligo.