Ita Daly

Ita Daly
Born 1945
County Leitrim, Ireland
Occupation Writer
Nationality Irish

Ita Daly (born 1945) is an Irish author of five novels for adults, two for children and a collection of short stories.

Biography

Ita Daly was born in 1945 in Drumshanbo, County Leitrim, Ireland. She was the daughter of a civil servant. She was educated in the St. Louis High School in Dublin and then went on to study English and Spanish at University College Dublin. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts and Higher Diploma in Education. She worked as a teacher for eleven years at a secondary school in Dublin. Daly was married to writer David Marcus and in 2016 published a memoir of their life together, I'll Drop You a Line: A Life With David Marcus. She has one daughter. She left teaching when her daughter was born. She lives in Dublin. She is a member of Aosdána.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]

Awards

  • In both 1972 and 1976 she was awarded the Hennessy Literary Award
  • In 1975 she won the short story contest in The Irish Times

Bibliography

  • The Lady with the Red Shoes (1980)
  • Ellen (1986)
  • A Singular Attraction (1987)
  • Candy on the Dart (1989)
  • Candy and Sharon Olé (1991)
  • Dangerous Fictions (1991)
  • All Fall Down (1992)
  • Unholy ghosts;dt. The lost past (2000)
  • Irish Myths & Legends (2000)
  • I'll Drop You a Line: A Life With David Marcus (2016)

References

  1. ↑ "Aosdána".
  2. ↑ "Munsterlit Biography".
  3. ↑ "Irish Writers Online".
  4. ↑ "Agency Biography".
  5. ↑ "Biography on Ricorso".
  6. ↑ Alexander G. Gonzalez (2006). Irish Women Writers: An A-to-Z Guide. Greenwood Publishing Group.
  7. ↑ "Dublin City Library".


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