About us

Lúc Verling was born in the Connemara Gaeltacht and raised in Limerick City, where he attended St Clement’s College. Encouraged by his English and Irish teachers in his writing, he was chosen by Val Mulkearns to participate in a short story masterclass while in secondary school.

Fascinated by marine biology, he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from University College, Galway, before turning his attention to writing and documentary-making, starting as a reviewer for The Limerick Leader and Circa Art Magazine. A Certificate in Radio Journalism in Waterford followed, and a Jacob’s Award for the radio documentary The Story of the West Clare Railway. Having taught English and Cultural Studies in Shen Yang, China for eighteen months, he returned to take up a Master of Arts degree at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, graduating in 1996, a year after his re-birth into the kingdom of heaven.

Continuing to work in documentary-making, he founded Earth Productions as a business in 1998 and released its first audiobook, A Tribute to Jim Kemmythe next year to showcase his aptitudes. Lúc has continued to produce audiobooks, documentaries and articles since then. He was blessed by Dr John de Courcy Ireland, who predicted a great future for Lúc as a journalist, and by Neil McAndrew and Ciarán Coogan, brothers in the kingdom, who made prayers that he would write healing scripts for screen, and that he would express how ordinary people feel. Lúc’s highest professional aspiration is to create visionary cinema.