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Irish poet
Annemarie Ní Churreáin
OccupationPoet
LanguageIrish
NationalityIrish
Alma materTrinity College, Dublin

Annemarie Ní Churreáin is an Irish poet from North West Donegal.

Career

Ní Churreáin grew up in Donegal in a place called Cnoc Na Naomh.

She was educated at the Oscar Wilde Centre at Trinity College, Dublin. Ní Churreáin is fluent in Irish.

Ní Churreáin has received literary awards from Jack Kerouac House, Akademie Schloss Solitude, and Hawthornden Castle.

In 2016, Ní Churreáin was honoured with the Next Generation Artists Award from Michael D. Higgins on behalf of the Arts Council of Ireland. In 2018, she was awarded the inaugural John Broderick Residency Award by the Arts Council. In 2019, she was named one of two Writers in Residence at Maynooth University, Kildare.

In addition to her writing practice, Ní Churreáin is a panelist on the Writers in Irish Prisons Scheme and co-founder of the arts collective, "Upstart." In 2007, she established Ireland's first creative arts therapies outreach programme for people in need.

Bibliography

Ní Churreáin's first poetry collection Bloodroot was published by Doire Press in October 2017. In 2018 it was shortlisted for the Shine Strong Award in Ireland and for the Julie Suk Award. Her second book Town is a special edition letter-press book published by The Salvage Press 2018.

Ní Churreáin's second full length poetry collection The Poison Glen was published by The Gallery Press, 2021.

References

  1. Ní Churreáin, Annemarie (26 October 2017). "'I was raised in the shadow of men who wanted to conquer wildness'". The Irish Times. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
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  4. "Annemarie Ní Churreáin". Akademie Schloss Solitude. Retrieved 20 September 2017.
  5. ^ "Annemarie Ní Churreáin". The Arts Council. 25 May 2016. Retrieved 20 September 2017.
  6. "Annemarie Ní Churreáin announced as inaugural recipient of the John Broderick writer's residency". www.artscouncil.ie. 5 September 2018. Retrieved 6 January 2019.
  7. "upstart.ie | AnneMarie". upstart.ie. Archived from the original on 28 October 2017. Retrieved 20 September 2017.
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  10. Andrews, Kernan. "Annemarie Ní Churreáin to go Over The Edge". Galway Advertiser. Retrieved 6 January 2019.
  11. Churreáin, Annemarie Ní. "'To see Dublin take shape on the page was a celebration, a gesture of hope'". The Irish Times. Retrieved 6 January 2019.
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