Éilis Ni Dhuibhne

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

Biography

In 1971 Éilis Ní 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. [ [http://www.eilisnidhuibhne.net/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1 Home - EilisNiDhuibhne.net ] ]

Bibliography

Novels in English

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

Novels in Irish

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

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)

Children’s Books

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

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.

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 [http://www.eilisnidhuibhne.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14&Itemid=27, for the entire bibliography, including the awards.]

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