John O’Rourke was born in Glasgow in 1961.
He was educated at St. Patrick’s College, Cavan
and St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth. Ordained a
Catholic priest in 1986, when his fi rst ...view moreJohn O’Rourke was born in Glasgow in 1961.
He was educated at St. Patrick’s College, Cavan
and St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth. Ordained a
Catholic priest in 1986, when his fi rst poems were
written, he spent ten years at Cavan Cathedral
and four years as a volunteer missionary in Lagos,
Nigeria. Having resigned from public ministry in
2000 John has combined writing poetry along with
work with the Department of Justice, VMM, an NGO,
teaching part-time at Patrician College, Finglas and
adult literacy with Louth VEC. Now the director
of Drogheda Creative Writers group, he has just
completed his fourth volume of poems.view less