Annemarie Ní Churreáin
Irish poet
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Annemarie Ní Churreáin is an Irish poet from County Donegal.
Annemarie Ní Churreáin | |
|---|---|
| Education | Trinity College, Dublin |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Writing career | |
| Language | Irish |
Career
Ní Churreáin grew up in a place called Cnoc Na Naomh in the north-west of County Donegal.[1]
She was educated at the Oscar Wilde Centre at Trinity College, Dublin.[2] Ní Churreáin is fluent in Irish.[3]
Ní Churreáin has received literary awards from Jack Kerouac House,[2] Akademie Schloss Solitude,[4] and Hawthornden Castle.[5]
In 2016, Ní Churreáin was honoured with the Next Generation Artists Award from Michael D. Higgins on behalf of the Arts Council of Ireland.[5] In 2018, she was awarded the inaugural John Broderick Residency Award by the Arts Council.[6] In 2019, she was named one of two Writers in Residence at Maynooth University in County 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."[7] In 2007, she established Ireland's first creative arts therapies outreach programme for people in need.
Bibliography
Ní Churreáin's first poetry collection, Bloodroot,[8] was published by Doire Press[9] in October 2017. In 2018 it was shortlisted for the Shine Strong Award in Ireland and for the Julie Suk Award.[10] Her second book, Town, is a special edition letter-press book published by The Salvage Press in 2018.[11]
Ní Churreáin's second full length poetry collection, The Poison Glen, was published by The Gallery Press in 2021 and in 2025 released 'Hymn To All the Restless Girls.'