Eamonn Wall
Eamonn Wall was born in Enniscorthy, Co Wexford in 1955.
He has published two chapbooks, The Tame Goose (New York, The Hale Press,
1990); and Fire Escape (New York, Sunken-Isle Press, 1988).
His poetry is collected as Dyckman - 200th Street (Cliffs of Moher, Co Clare, Salmon Publishing, 1994); Iron Mountain Road (Salmon Publishing 1997); The Crosses (Salmon Poetry, 2000); and Refuge at DeSoto Bend (Salmon Publishing, 2004); and A Tour of Your Country, (Salmon Poetry, 2008).
His prose includes From the Sin-é to the Black Hills,
Notes on the New Irish (Wisconsin, The University of Wisconsin Press, 2000), co-winner of the Durkan Prize from the American Conference for Irish Studies for the best scholarly book on Language and Literature published in 2000.
He is currently the Jefferson Smurfit Professor of Irish Studies at the University of Missouri—St Louis in the US.
