WRITER MINI-PROFILE

Garry Keane directs this short piece on the novelist, poet and short story writer Dermot Healy. The location is his home overlooking the Atlantic Ocean in Sligo. It is a beautiful atmospheric piece and is driven by Healy's poems from his collection 'Hammerhead'.

Healy is fast becoming an international writer of note. Over the years he has edited two literary journals Force 10 and Drumlin. His last novel 'A Goat's Song' is one of the finest Irish novels of recent years combining love story, tragedy and some of the greatest evocations of the Irish landscape ever written.

His memoir 'The Bend for Home' is a lyrical retelling of some of the main events in his life, combining humorous incidental anecdote with heart-breaking sadness.

His poetry collection 'The Ballyconnell Colours' shows him to be a poet in love with music and storytelling.

He has recently appeared in the film adaptation of the book 'I Could Read the Sky', a powerfully evocative story of the dispossessed and displaced Irish immigrants in Britain.


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Running Time: 10mins
Year Made: 2000
Price: €20 - PAL (European), €30 - NTSC (US) plus P&P