Kevin Doyle

Kevin Doyle was born and brought up in Cork. He holds a
Masters in Chemistry from NUI (Cork), and worked for a
number of years in the chemical industrial sector in Ireland
and the United States. He has been published in many
lierary journals, including the Stinging Fly, the Cork Review,
Southwords and the Cúirt Journal. He has been shortlisted for
a number of awards, including the Hennessy Literary Awards
and the Seán Ó Faoláin Prize, and has won the Tipperary
Short Story Award and the Michael McLaverty Short Story
Award. He has written extensively about Irish and radical
politics and, with Spark Deeley, he wrote the award-winning
children’s picture book, The Worms that Saved the World.
To Keep a Bird Singing is his first novel.