Eilis Ni Dhuibhne

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Éilis Ni Dhuibhne (born 1954, in Dublin) is an Irish novelist and short-story writer. She is also known as Elisabeth O'Hara.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Bibliography 2.1 Novels in English 2.2 Novels in Irish 2.3 Collections 2.4 Children’s Books 2.5 Plays 2.6 Awards 3 References

[edit] Biography

In 1971 Éilis Ni Dhuibhne won the English Prize in the University College Dublin entrance scholarship, and began to attend UCD, where she was awarded a BA in Pure English in 1974. She then studied Medieval Studies, and was awarded a Ph D doctorate in 1982, from the National University of Ireland, for an investigation of the history of a folktale found in international oral tradition and literature.
In 1978 she spent a year in Denmark, carrying out research on her doctoral dissertation. On her return to Ireland in 1979 she got a job as a supervisor on the Urban Folklore Project, which was run by the Department of Irish Folklore. Since 1990 she works as a curator at the National Library.^[1]

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] Novels in English

• The Bray House (1990)
• Singles (1994)
• The Dancers Dancing (1999)
• Fox, Swallow, Scarecrow (2007)

[edit] Novels in Irish

• Dúnmharú sa Daingean (2001)
• Cailíní Beaga Ghleann na mBláth (2003)

[edit] Collections

• Blood and Water (1989)
• Eating Women Is Not Recommended (1991)
• The Inland Ice (1997)
• The Pale Gold of Alaska (2000)
• Midwife to the Fairies (2003)

[edit] Children’s Books

• The Hiring Fair (1992)
• Blaeberry Sunday (1993)
• Penny Farthing Sally (1996)
• The Sparkling Rain (2004)

[edit] Plays

• Dún na mBan Trí Thine
  Produced by Amharclann de Hide and first performed at the Peacock, Dublin, 1995;
• Milseog an tSamhraidh
  Produced by Amharclann de Hide and first performed at the Samuel Beckett Theatre, Trinity College, in 1996;
• The Wild Swans
  Produced by the Abbey and performed at the Peacock Theatre, Dublin, in 1998.

[edit] Awards

• Arts Council Bursaries in 1986 and 1996
• Listowel Poetry Award
• Oireachtas Awards for a play and a novel
• Stewart Parker Award for a Play
• Butler Prose award (American Association of Irish Studies)
• Bisto Merit award and Bisto Book of the Year Award
• The Dancers Dancing was shortlisted for the 2000 Orange Prize^[2]

[edit] References