FGE - December 2011
Leanne O'Sullivan was born in 1983 and comes from the Beara Peninsula in West Cork, Ireland.
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Caitríona Ní Chléirchín won first prize in the Oireachtas competition for new writers 2010 for her first collection of poetry Crithloinnir,
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Michael Coady lives in the town of his birth, Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary and in 1998 was elected to Aosdána,
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Bríd Ní Mhóráin, who lives in West Kerry, is currently poet-in-residence in the Gaeltacht there. She has published four collections in Irish:
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Colm Breathnach is an Irish-language poet, novelist and translator. He has published six collections of poetry and a selected edition.
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Gréagóir Ó Dúill was born in Dublin, grew up in Whitehead, Co. Antrim and now divides his time between Dublin and Gort a’ Choirce, Co. Donegal.
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Miriam Gamble is from Belfast but recently moved to Glasgow. In 2007, she won an Eric Gregory Award
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Ailbhe Darcy was born and bred in Dublin. In 2011 she released her first full-length collection of poetry, Imaginary Menagerie,
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Mary O’Malley was born in Connemara, Co Galway. Her collections include A Consideration of Silk (Galway, Salmon Poetry, 1990);
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Dermot Healy was born in Westmeath in 1947 and is an accomplished novelist, short story writer, playwright and autobiographer.
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Ceaití Ní Bheildiúin was born Cathi Weldon, in a village called Rush, near Dublin City.
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Billy Ramsell was born in Cork in 1977 and educated at the North Monastery and UCC. Complicated Pleasures, his first collection,
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