11 Facts About Barry Devlin

Barry Devlin was born on 27 November 1946 and is an Irish musician, screenwriter and director.

Barry Devlin initially began to train as a Columban priest, but left to study English at University College Dublin and then joined a graphics company as a screenwriter.

Barry Devlin was in the pioneering Irish Celtic rock band Horslips as bass player, vocalist and front man.

Barry Devlin has directed for the screen, producing a number of U2 videos in the 1980s.

Barry Devlin wrote the screenplays for the five episodes of the television series My Mother and Other Strangers, which aired in 2016.

Barry Devlin co-wrote with Paul J Bolger Hound, a graphic novel trilogy based on the Ulster Cycle that got limited release from 2014 to 2018 before Dark Horse published an omnibus edition.

In 2015, Barry Devlin won the Best Writer Published in Ireland award at the Irish Comic News alongside Paul for Hound.

Barry Devlin's sister, Marie Devlin, is a school teacher and writer, who published Over Nine Waves, a collection of traditional Irish myths and legends, in 1994.

Barry Devlin was married to the Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney, from 1965 until the poet's death in 2013.

Barry Devlin's first book, All Of Us There, is a Virago Modern Classic.

Barry Devlin made a documentary film The Daisy Chain and now is a professor at Columbia University, New York.