Gillian Somerville-Large was born in Switzerland
in 1934. Her childhood was spent in India, the
United States and Italy before she read Modern
Languages at her father’s old university, Trinity
College, Dublin.
For many years she reviewed books in the
Irish Times and the Irish Independent.
A selection of her poetry was published in 2000
in Ink Bottle - New Writing from Kilkenny edited
by Mark Roper. Ightermurragh in the Rain is
Gillian’s second collection of poems from
Lapwing, her first being Karamania, 2011.
She lives with her husband, the writer Peter
Somerville-Large, in Ullard, Co. Kilkenny