Idle Time

Born 1953 in Co. Mayo and moved to Dublin in 1969. Worked in journalism. Works include The Guinness Book of Humorous Irish Anecdotes (1996); It's An Awful World, Thank God: A Quirky Look at Life (1996); Michael Collins [Neil Jordan's film] (1996); with Brian Behan, The Brothers Behan (1998); comp., The Cynic's Dictionary (1998, 1999); I Was a Fugitive from a Hollywood Trivia Factory: A Book of Hollywood Lists (1999); Hemingway: The Grace and the Pressure (1999); On the Edge: Psychological Problems of the Famous and Infamous (1999); Funny Peculiar: A Directory of the Daft and Dotty (2001); Historic Pubs of Dublin (2001), ill. Trevor Hart [photos]; In Bed with the Enemy (2002), ill. by Andy Seldon. Poetry, Flight (1981); Pedagogue and Other Poems (2001); Talk Nation: The Irish on Everything and Anything (Currach Books 2004), 416pp. [Poetry and sundry other works as Aubrey Malone].