Antoine O Flatharta is from Connemara County Galway and has been living in Dublin for the past 20 years. He has written for the stage and television in Irish and English and his works have been produced by many theatre companies, including the Abbey Theatre, Druid Theatre Company, the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh, the Cleveland Playhouse and the Ensemble Studio theatre in New York. His stage plays include, "Gaeilgeoirí", "Imeachtaí na Saoirse", "Blood Guilty", "An Solas Dearg", "Grace in America" and "Silverlands".
His television and radio drama has been broadcast by the RTE and the BBC. He devised the TG4 series "Ros na Rún" which he created originally as a pilot programme for RTE in 1992. His plays have been published by Cló-Iar Chonnachta and New Island Books. He is the author of two children's books ; "The Prairie Train", was published in America by Random House and won the Western Writer' of America Storyteller Award in the year 2000. His latest book "Hurry and the Monarch" was published in June 2005.
