Michael Harding
Michael Harding
Biography

Michael Harding was born in 1953 in Cavan, and is an Irish short story writer, newspaper columnist, novelist and playwright. He was a recipient of the Stewart Parker Theatre Bursary in 1990 and the Bank of Ireland/ RTE award for excellence in the Arts in the same year. He won the Hennessey Literary Award for short stories in 1980 and became a member of Aosdana in 2000.
Works
Novels
| Title | Year |
| Priest | 1986 |
| The Trouble with Sarah Gullion | 1988 |
| Bird in the Snow | 2008 |
| Staring at Lakes | 2012 |
Plays
| Title | Year |
| Strawboys | 1987 |
| Una Pooka | 1989 |
| Misogynist | 1990 |
| Burying Brian Boru | 1990 |
| Where the Heart is | 1993 |
| Hubert Murray’s Widow | 1993 |
| The Kiss | 1994 |
| Ceacht Houdini. Amharclann | 1994 |
| Backsides to the Wind | 1995 |
| Sour Grapes | 1997 |
| Amazing Grace | 1998 |
| Bog Dances | 2000 |
| Sleeping a Lovesong | 2002 |
| Talking Through his Hat | 2002 |
| Swallow | 2003 |
| Birdie Birdie | 2004 |
| Tearmann for Siamsa Tire | 2006 |
| The Tinkers Curse | 2007 |
| Is there Balm in Gilead | 2007 |
