The funeral of author Christopher Nolan is being held in Dublin this morning at St Fintan’s Church in Sutton, Co Dublin.
Mr Nolan, who had cerebral palsy, died on February 20th at the age of 43.
He won the Whitbread Book of the Year award in 1988 for his autobiography Under the Eye of the Clock. His first book, a collection of poems, Damburst of Dreams , was published in 1981 and his novel, The Banyan Tree, was published in 1999.
Mr Nolan, who was a member of Aosdána, lived in Sutton and Clontarf. He is survived by his parents, Joseph and Bernadette, and his sister, Yvonne.