Jack Harte

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Launch of Jack Harte’s New Novel

The launch of Jack Harte’s second novel ‘Reflections in a Tar-Barrel’, will took place in The Yeats Memorial Building, Sligo at 6pm on Wednesday 19th November.

Like much of his work, this novel is set in his native Tireragh. Harte’s first novel, ‘In the wake of the Bagger’, which was commissioned by Sligo County Council under the Per Cent for Art Scheme, was selected by Des Kenny as one of the ‘101 Irish Books you Must Read’ - his recently published book.

Short Biography

Jack Harte was born in Killeenduff, near Easkey, Co Sligo, Ireland. When he was nine years old his family moved to Lanesboro, Co Longford, where his father worked for Bord-na-Mona. At the age of eighteen, he came to Dublin where he still lives. He attended primary schools at Killeenduff and Dromore West, Co. Sligo, and at Lanesboro, Co Longford. His secondary education was at Ballyleague, Co Roscommon and Roscommon town. Through evening courses at UCD he got a BA and H Dip in Ed. He has worked at many jobs in his time from Bus Conductor to School Principal, and founded both the Irish Writers’ Union and the Irish Writers’ Centre.

Writing Career

Harte’s first collection of stories, Murphy in the Underworld, was published by Glendale Press in 1986. Dedalus Press published his novella, Homage, in 1992 and his second collection of stories, Birds and other Tails, in 1996. A selection of his stories, under the title, Birds and Selected Stories, was translated into Bulgarian and published by Orpheus (Sofia) in 2001.

From Under Gogol’s Nose, a volume of new and selected stories was published by Scotus Press in 2004, along with ‘Lament for the Birds’, a CD of his stories and songs commissioned by Sligo County Council. Individual stories have been published in magazines and anthologies in Ireland, Britain, U.S.A., Australia, New Zealand, Finland, Bulgaria, and Russia, and have been included in many school text-books. He has given public readings throughout Ireland as well as in England, France, Belgium, Germany, Denmark, India, and Bulgaria. His second novel, Reflections in a Tar-Barrel, was published in Bulgarian translation in 2007 and in English in 2008.