He established Duras Press, an independent literary publisher.[3]
Works
Poetry
Endsville (with Paul Durcan) (Dublin: New Writers’ Press 1967), 59pp.;
Beds of Down (Dublin: Raven Arts 1983), 46pp.;
Sixty-Five Poems: Paul Celan (trans., with Peter Jankowsky) (Dublin: Raven Arts 1985), 88pp.;
No Die Cast (New Writers’ Co-op. 1969), [12]pp. [ltd. edn. 75];
Outside the Pheasantry (Gorey: Funge Arts Centre 1976), 16pp., ill. [by Paul Funge];
Perpetual Star (Dublin: Raven Arts 1980), 47pp.;
Voices from the Nettle-way (Dublin: Raven Arts 1989), 60pp.;
Poesie a Lerici (TCD: Dept. of Italian 2003), 59pp. [chapbook of reading in Lerici, Spezia];
New and Renewed: Poems 1967-2004 (Dublin: New Island Press 2004), 120pp.;
Pity for the Wicked, a long poem about Northern Ireland, with a preface by Conor Cruise O’Brien (Dublin [Killiney]: Duras Press 2005), 78pp.
Fiction
The Winner of Sorrow (Dublin: New Island Press 2005; American edition Dalkey Archive Press 2006), 300pp.
The Woman Not the Name (Dublin: Duras Press 2013), 342pp.
Plays,TV and Film
Crooked in the Car Seat (Dublin Theatre Festival 1979, published by the Duras Press, 2024, with a preface by Colm Tóibín and an introduction by the author);
Days Lost Behind the Curtain (1985);
Caught in a Free State (1983) [four part television series about German spies in Ireland, co-production between RTE and Channel 4, which won a Banff Television Festival Award for best screenplay in 1985];
Love and Rage (1999), feature film directed by Cathal Black, starring Greta Scacchi and Daniel Craig.
Awards
Member of Aosdána nominated by Samuel Beckett and Michael Hartnett, elected 1985
1979: Crooked in the Car Seat nominated in the Best Play category of the Harvey's Theatre Awards
2005: The Winner of Sorrow shortlisted for the Hughes & Hughes Irish Book Awards.[4]
↑ "Welcome". The Duras Press. Retrieved 25 October 2020.
↑ "Brian Lynch". Irish Playography. Retrieved 25 October 2020.
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