Philip Casey
| Date of Birth: | 1 January 1970 |
| Address: | Dublin |
I was born in London in 1950 to Irish parents from Co Laois and Co Sligo. The north London of the 1950s was an enchanting, if in retrospect dangerous, playground for children, and I frequently escaped the confines of our house off Holloway Road to play in the bomb-sites in Highgate. This experience was the germ of my novel The Water Star. In late 1956 the family settled on a farm near Screen, several kilometres north of Wexford town, but moved a few years later to Hollyfort in north Wexford. This picturesque landscape, featuring Croghan mountain and Annagh Hill, and the Bann River, feature in the three novels which make up The Bann River Trilogy. Apart from three years in Barcelona in the mid-seventies, I’ve lived in Dublin since 1971. My latest publication is a novel for children (9+). Over a decade ago, my niece Iseult (now an actress), asked me to write her a story. It’s been a long time coming, Iseult, but it’s here at last.
