Oran Ryan

"Oran Ryan lives in Limerick, Ireland. He writes novels, plays, short fiction, poetry, and scholarly articles.

Novels and Shorter Fiction:

• The Death of Finn (Seven Towers, 2006)

· Selections from "Giovanni Seipi at Home" By Joseph Finn OHF (Seven Towers 2007)

• Ten Short Novels by Arthur Kruger (Seven Towers, 2007

· Arthur’s Primer (Seven Towers 2007)

• One-Inch Punch (Seven Towers, 2012)

• A Telmetale Bloomnibus (2013, co-authored)

• Life During Wartime (2022, limerick Writers, also available as Kindle Ed)

Plays for Stage and Radio

· Don Quixote has Been Promoted (2019, Ranelagh Arts Festival)

• Preliminary Design For a Universe Circling Spacecraft (KRPN, San Francisco, 2010)

Poetry:

• Portrait of an Atheist Monk at Prayer (2019 Limerick Writers Centre)

Literary Criticism, Academic Work and Lecturing

Ryan has written on William Burroughs, Marcel Proust, T.S Eliot, Virginia Woolf, David Foster Wallace and Doris Lessing

among others, as well as James Joyce, particularly Finnegans Wake."