Bere Island Authors
| Daphne DU MAURIER | |
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Daphne Du Maurier, an English national, published Hungry Hill in 1943. The novel depicts the copper mining industry within a changing social landscape. It has also been turned in a movie. Some, romantic parts, play on or near Doon Island, her name for Bere Island. |  |
| Siobhan HAWKE | |
| Michel HOUELLEBECQ | |
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Michel Houellebecq exiled himself on Bere Island in the early 2000’s after receiving threats in his native France. He lived in ‘The White House’ near the West End. There is speculation that the island motives in some of his works written after his sejour (Lanzarote; La possibilite d’une isle) were inspired by Bere Island, but he has never spoken out on that. |  |
| Connie MURPHY | |
‘Prehistoric Archaeology of the Beara Peninsula’ | |
| Ted O’SULLIVAN | |
| Ted lives in Cork and on Bere Island. He worked as a secondary teacher and in the Centre for Cooperative Studies in University College. His book A short history of Bere Island is for years the standard work on the island’s history. It is reprinted on a regular basis. It will be made available in print through the Bere Island Heritage Centre. | |
| Menno STEKETEE | |
| Menno, a journalist and a maritime biologist by training was a very regular and loyal visitor to Bere Island (between 2003 and 2015). He wrote various articles for Dutch newspapers. His most interesting (and fun!) contributions were his cooking columns, tapping from local food and fish knowledge. Menno died in 2015. | |
| BERE ISLAND PROJECT GROUP (BIPG) | |
| The BIPG has published with various, often anonymous contributors several booklets on Bere Island, like The Bere Island Experience. They also publish the yearly Christmas Newsletter. | |
| Helen RIDDELL | |
| Helen is a freelance journalist and BBC researcher and lives year-round on Bere Island. She has a long and successful history of publishing about island related developments in regional or national press. | |
| Paul VREULS | |
| Paul is a travel writer from Amsterdam and wrote an excellent ‘travelogue’ about a visit to Bere Island. In Dutch. |  |
| VARIOUS and COLLECTIVES | |
Beara Historical Society – historical publications; School children in Ireland were asked to write about their local areas, its history and stories in 1937. ‘The Schools Folklore Collection 1937’; Sherkin Island Marine Station – ‘Wild Plants of Bere, Whiddy and Dursey’; St Michael’s National School – Bere Island. ‘We Are Writers’; Women on the Irish Islands (includes pieces from Mary K Sullivan, Carol Murphy, Pauline Hanley, Margaret Murphy, Helen Riddell, and Kay and Ellen Mullins) – ‘Island Writings’. | |