Pádraig Ó Cíobháin
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Pádraig Ó Cíobháin (born 1951)[1] is an Irish-language novelist and short story writer.
Ó Cíobháin was born in Ballyferriter, an Irish-speaking district in West Kerry, and was educated at Ferriter National School, St. Brendan's College, Killarney and University College Cork. As of 2011, he lived in Bearna, west of Galway. From 2003 to 2005 he was Irish Language Writer in Residence at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He has also worked as a tutor in Roinn na Gaeilge (the Irish Language Department) of that university.[1]