Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill

Born in Lancashire in 1952 to Irish parents, Nuala NI Dhomhnaill was brought up in the Dingle Gaeltacht and in Nenagh, Co. Tipperary, and was educated at University College Cork. Her collections of poetry include An Dealg Droighin (1981), Fear Suaithinseach (1984), Rogha Danta/SelectedPoems (1986, 1988, 1990), Pharaoh's Daughter (1990), Feis (1991), The Astrakhan Cloak (1992), Spionain is Roiseanna (1993), In the Heart of Europe: Poems for Bosnia (1998), Cead Aighnis (2000) and The Fifty Minute...See more

Born in Lancashire in 1952 to Irish parents, Nuala NI Dhomhnaill was brought up in the Dingle Gaeltacht and in Nenagh, Co. Tipperary, and was educated at University College Cork. Her collections of poetry include An Dealg Droighin (1981), Fear Suaithinseach (1984), Rogha Danta/SelectedPoems (1986, 1988, 1990), Pharaoh's Daughter (1990), Feis (1991), The Astrakhan Cloak (1992), Spionain is Roiseanna (1993), In the Heart of Europe: Poems for Bosnia (1998), Cead Aighnis (2000) and The Fifty Minute Mermaid (2007). Her Selected Essays were published in 2005. She received Duais Sheain Ui Riordain in 1982, 1984 and 1990, Duais Na Chomhairle Ealalne urn Filfochta in 1985 and 1988, Gradam an Oireachtais (1984), the Irish American Foundation O'Shaughnessy Award for Poetry (1988), and the American Ireland Fund Literature Prize (1991). Nuala NI Dhomhnaill lives in Dublin, is a member of Aosdana, and was Ireland Professor of Poetry 2001-4. See less