Career
Beirne was the writer in residence for the 2008-2009 academical year at the University of New Brunswick, where he currently works at the English Department. He is a Fiction Editor of The Fiddlehead Literary Magazine - Canada"s longest surviving literary magazine. He also curates the on-line magazines The Irish Literary Times and The New Brunswick Literary Times.
His most recent collection of poems, Games of Chance - A Gambler"s Manual, was published by Oberon Press, Fall 2011.
His novel The Eskimo in the Net was published by Marion Boyars in 2003 and was short-listed for the 2004 Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award. lieutenant was selected by the Daily Express as Book of the Year.
His story, "Sightings of Bono", was adapted for Irish film and featured Bono (of U2), it is now available as an eBook. Beirne"s Civil Defense of spoken word poetry - If it"s words you"re after - was released in 2006.
His collaboration with classical composer Siobhán Cleary (Hum), was called "a theatrical tour de force" by The Irish Times.
In 2009, Oberon Press published his second novel, Turtle.
