Ciaran Carty Biography
Ciaran Carty
Film Critic
Irish Tribune
Ever since incurring the wrath of his first editor in 1960 by making Hitchcock's Psycho his film of the year, Ciaran Carty has been a consistently independent and passionate commentator on film and literature, both as a reviewer and broadcaster and through his interviews with Irish and international artists, first as deputy editor of The Sunday Independent and later as arts editor and chief critic of The Sunday Tribune where he still works.
His first book, Robert Ballagh, a study of the multimedia artist who subsequently designed the international acclaimed Riverdance show, appeared in 1986 and Confessions Of A Sewer Rat, a personal account of his fight against censorship and the subsequent development of the Irish film industry, was published in 1995.
His other books include Robert Ballagh's Dublin and The Space Between.
He has been editor of New Irish Writing since 1988 and director of the Hennessy Literary awards, which have proved a vital launch pad for successive generation of Irish writers - notably Colum McCann and Joseph O'Connor - who have gone on to reshape the face of Irish fiction.
He is co-editor with Dermot Bolger of The Hennessy Book of Irish Fiction and The New Hennessy Book of Irish Fiction.