Éilís Ní Dhuibhne is an Irish

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 novelist and short-story writer who writes both in Irish

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 and English. She is also known as Elisabeth O'Hara.

Biography

Éilís Ní Dhuibhne is a writer and critic. She was born in Dublin in 1954. She attended University College Dublin, where she studied Pure English, then Folklore. She was awarded the UCD Entrance scholarship for English, and two post graduate scholarships in Folklore. In 1978-9 she studied at the University of Copenhagen, and in 1982 was awarded a PhD from the National University of Ireland.
She has worked in the Department of Irish Folklore in UCD, and for many years as a curator in the National Library of Ireland. Also a teacher of Creative Writing, she has been Writer Fellow at Trinity College and is currently Writer Fellow at UCD. She is a member of Aosdána.

Eilis Ni Dhuibhne is also known as Eilis Almquist and Elizabeth O'Hara.

Further information on Éilís Ní Dhuibhne's work may be found in Rebecca Pelan, ed, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne: Perspectives. Galway, Arlen House, 2009.

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)
• Hurlamaboc (2005)
• Dún an Airgid (2007)

'Dordán (2011)

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 novels
• Stewart Parker Award for a Play
• Butler Prose award (American Association of Irish Studies)
• Bisto Merit awards for The Hiring Fair and Hurlamanoc, and Bisto Book of the Year Award for Blaeberry Sunday
• The Dancers Dancing was shortlisted for the 2000 Orange Prize