Seán Dunne (1956–1995) was born in Waterford, Ireland and studied at University College Cork. He published three collections of poems, Against the Storm (1985), The Sheltered Nest (1992) and Time and the Island (1996), two prose books, In My Father’s House (1991) and The Road to Silence (1994) and edited several anthologies. He worked in the city library before moving into freelance journalism and finally became a prominent columnist for the Cork Examiner.