Geraldine Moorkens Byrne

Geraldine is a writer and award winning poet from Dublin, Ireland. She studied in UCD, worked in Advertising and Publishing and finally returned to her family roots to run a famous music shop in Dublin. She retired in 2021 after almost 30 years, and now writes full time.
Her poetry draws on a variety of inspirational sources – Old Irish mythology, Irish literary forms, modern politics mixed with the ancient tradition of Satire.

Her work has been published in Anthologies (inc Where The Hazel Falls /Electric Publications; Jane Raeburn Collection; Small Things; Pagan Paeans; Brigid’s Runes) and Magazines (inc Asian Geographic -frontispiece, Tribes Edition; American Dowser)as well as Ezines (inc Prairie Poetry; Poetry Life and Times.) Other includes Gods and Radicals Anthology “A beautiful Resistance”; The 1916 Rising Commemorative Magazine “Sixteen” (several issues, featured poet.) She has several poems in the Poetry From the Lockdown, Willowbrook Press, and her short story “A Stranger Among Friends” was a prizewinner in the Cunningham Short Story Comp and is included in the winners anthology 2020.

Geraldine was a founding editor of the PPP poetry ezine/workshop which is now a small poetry collective dedicated to helping new authors. She was also editor of Pagan Paeans (with Simone L Hogan). In 2011 she was a prize winner, Listowel Writers Week John Creedon Inaugral Poetry Competition. Her work has been performed by theatre groups in the USA and UK – notably “Death of the Hero” and “Bealtine”. Her mystery and cozy novels are popular, and offer authentic Irish stories with a warm and charming setting.

Geraldine teaches online classes on Irish folk magic traditions, and her book Draíocht Ceoil: The Sound of Music in Irish Traditions will be published by Pagan Portals (Moon Books) 2025