Annemarie Ní Churreáin

Annemarie Ní Churreáin
Occupation Poet
Language Irish
Nationality Irish
Alma mater Trinity 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.[1]

She was educated at Dublin City University and the Oscar Wilde Centre at Trinity College, Dublin.[2] Ní Churreáin is fluent in Irish.[3]

Ní Churreáin has been awarded literary fellowships by Jack Kerouac House,[2] Akademie Schloss Solitude,[4] and Hawthornden Castle.[5] Ní Churreáin is a panelist on the Writers in Irish Prisons Scheme and co-founder of the arts collective, “Upstart.”[6] In 2007, she was part of a program using art therapy for people with disabilities in Mountmellick called Áthas.[7] 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 2017, she became a Writer in Residence for Kerry County.[3] During her residency in Kerry, she will be conducting workshops, working with youth and writing a new series of poems.[8]

Work

Ní Churreáin's first collection of poetry, BLOODROOT[9] was published by Doire Press[10] in October 2017. Some of the publications to feature her work include the Poetry Ireland Review,[11] The Stinging Fly,[12] The SHOp[13] and The London Magazine.

She says that her poems are explorations of emotions and how they connect to physical spaces.[14] She also focuses on the "complexity and fragility of human relationships."[14]

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 2017-11-07.
  2. 1 2 "Category 2014-2015". The Kerouac Project. Retrieved 2017-09-20.
  3. 1 2 Dennehy, Fergus (23 September 2017). "Meet Kerry's new artists-in-residence: writer Annemarie and filmmaker Mieke". The Kerryman. Retrieved 6 November 2017 – via LexisNexis. (Subscription required (help)).
  4. ↑ "Annemarie Ní Churreáin". Akademie Schloss Solitude. Retrieved 2017-09-20.
  5. 1 2 "Annemarie Ní Churreáin". The Arts Council. 2016-05-25. Retrieved 2017-09-20.
  6. ↑ "upstart.ie | AnneMarie". upstart.ie. Retrieved 2017-09-20.
  7. ↑ "ltra-modern disability project launched in Mountmellick". Laois Nationalist. 29 November 2007. Retrieved 6 November 2017 – via LexisNexis. (Subscription required (help)).
  8. ↑ O'Mahony, John (2017-09-15). "Annemarie is the Write choice for Kerry". KillarneyToday.com. Retrieved 2017-11-07.
  9. ↑ "www.studiotwentyfive.com". www.studiotwentyfive.com. Retrieved 2017-09-27.
  10. ↑ "Home". www.doirepress.com. Retrieved 2017-09-27.
  11. ↑ "Issue 103 | Poetry Ireland". www.poetryireland.ie. Retrieved 2017-09-20.
  12. ↑ "Summer 2017 | The Stinging Fly". The Stinging Fly. Retrieved 2017-09-20.
  13. ↑ "Autumn/Winter 2011 | THE SHOp a Magazine of Poetry". theshop-poetry-magazine.ie. Retrieved 2017-09-20.
  14. 1 2 Harris, Arlene (14 May 2016). "Artists on retreat; From poets to dancers, 16 young talents awarded Next Generation bursaries by the Arts Council of Ireland spent an inspiring week together at a retreat in Co Monaghan". Independent.ie. Retrieved 6 November 2017 – via LexisNexis. (Subscription required (help)).
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