Ronan Sheehan

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Ronan Sheehan (born 1953) is an Irish novelist, short story writer and essayist.{{Cite web |url=http://www.irishwriters-online.com/sheehan-ronan/ |title=Irish Writers Online - Sheehan, Ronan |publisher=Irish Writers Online |accessdate=2011-10-17 |archive-date=31 May 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170531054633/http://www.irishwriters-online.com/sheehan-ronan/ |url-status=dead }} He was an early member of the Irish Writers' Co-operative (founded in 1974 by Fred Johnston, Neil Jordan and Peter Sheridan){{Cite web |url=http://www.twwc.ie/?p=959 |title=COMMEMORATE IRISH WRITERS’ CO-OP IN CAPTAIN AMERICA’S IN GRAFTON STREET, DUBLIN |publisher=The Western Writers’ Centre |accessdate=2011-10-17 }} and its Secretary from 1975 to 1983.{{Cite web |url=http://www.centrumlatinitatis.it/letteratura/ronan/Ronan_curriculum.pdf |title=Ronan Sheehan, Curriculum Vitae |accessdate=2011-10-17 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425073950/http://www.centrumlatinitatis.it/letteratura/ronan/Ronan_curriculum.pdf |archivedate=2012-04-25 }} He received the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature in 1984.[http://www.lilliputpress.ie/listbook.html?id=58 Foley's Asia at Lilliput Press]. Retrieved: 2011-10-17. Until 2005 he was a practising lawyer in Dublin, specialising in copyright law. He was the General Editor of the Catullus Project to translate works by Catullus into English and Irish.[http://westportbookfestival.org/news/2009/07/30/the-irish-catullus/ The Irish Catullus] West Port Book Festival. Retrieved: 2011-10-17.

Sheehan was educated at Gonzaga College, and University College Dublin, and the Incorporated Law Society. Neil Jordan, the Irish filmmaker, called his Foley's Asia, "A meditation on arms, oppression and empire, [offering] a unique insight into [the] Irish and Indian colonial experience".