10.09.05: STEPHEN MURRAY

I'm a peace-loving poet. And a champion of the people."

Stephen Murray was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1974. He was educated in Richmond, Surrey and was three times award winner in the WH Smith and Observer Young Writer of the Year Award. He moved back to Ireland in 1996 to his family's native Limerick and currently lives in Connemara, Co Galway where he works as a stonemason. In April 2005, he won the Cúirt International Festival of Literature Poetry Grand Slam for “Love Noir." As the Cúirt Slam Champion, Stephen traveled to perform in Chicago in autumn 2005.

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