Jack Harte

Jack Harte is an Irish short story writer and novelist. He founded the Irish Writers' Union and the Irish Writers' Centre.

Harte's first novel, In the Wake of the Bagger, was published in 2006. It was commissioned by Sligo Co Council under the Irish Government's Per Cent for Art scheme. It tells the story of the Dowd family, who are uprooted from their home in Killeenduff and resettle as economic migrants in the Irish Midlands. It describes the tension between the traditional Irish way of life and the new realities of industrialization in rural Ireland. The novel was described in the Irish Independent as "one of the great books about Ireland. It was selected by Des Kenny as one of his 101 Irish Books You MUST Read – Kenny's Choice.

Harte's second novel is Reflections in a Tar-Barrel. It was first published in Bulgarian translation in 2007.

Unravelling the Spiral is an account of the life of Harte's cousin, sculptor Fred Conlon. Harte and Conlon were born within ten months of each other in the townland of Killeenduff, grew up together, and were close friends until Conlon's death.