Ailbhe Darcy
Ailbhe Darcy (born 1981) is an Irish poet and Wales Book of the Year award laureate.
Ailbhe Darcy
- Name
- Ailbhe Darcy
- Born
- 1981
- Birthplace
- Dublin, Ireland
- Education
- University College Dublin University of Notre Dame
- Awards
- * Wales Book of the Year (2019)
- Nationality
- Ireland
- Occupation
- poet · university teacher · literary scholar · writer
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Ailbhe Darcy (born 1981) is an Irish poet and Wales Book of the Year award laureate.
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Ailbhe Darcy (born 1981) is an Irish literary scholar, poet and university teacher, among other activities. The literary scholar was born in County Dublin.
Ailbhe Darcy studied at University College Dublin. The literary scholar worked for Cardiff University.
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• Name — Ailbhe Darcy • Birth Name — Ailbhe Darcy • Born — 1981 • Birthplace — Dublin, Ireland • Education — University College Dublin University of Notre Dame • Notable Works — * Insistence (2018) • Awards — * Wales Book of the Year (2019)
Biography
Biography
Ailbhe Darcy was born in 1981 and grew up in Dublin, Ireland. In 2015, she was awarded an MFA and a PhD from the University of Notre Dame. She won the 2019 Wales Book of the Year and the Pigott Poetry Prize at the 2019 Listowel Writers' Week with her collection Insistence, which was also shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Irish Times Poetry Now Award. Darcy is a Reader in Creative Writing at Cardiff University. Darcy lives in Cardiff.
Poetry
Poetry
• A Fictional Dress (Tall Lighthouse, 2009) * * *
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Prose
• A History of Irish Women's Poetry (co-edited with David Wheatley, Cambridge University Press, 2021) • Virtuosity: Risk and Excess in Poetic Form (Cambridge University Press, 2026)
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- 1.Rumens, Carol. Poem of the week: Silt Whisper by Ailbhe Darcy. The Guardian. 24 September 2012.
- 2.Poetry Programme preview: TS Eliot Prize nominee Ailbhe Darcy. RTÉ.ie. 13 December 2018.
- 3.BBC News. Wales Book of the Year 2019: Poet Ailbhe Darcy wins award. 13 May 2019.
- 4.Katie Mansfield. Poet triumphs at Wales Book of the Year Awards. The Bookseller. 20 June 2019.
- 5.Doyle, Martin. €15,000 Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year winner revealed. The Irish Times. 29 May 2019.
- 6.Flood, Alison. TS Eliot prize announces 'intensely political' shortlist. The Guardian. 18 October 2018.
- 7.Smyth, Gerard. Six named on 'Irish Times' Poetry Now award shortlist. The Irish Times. 2 February 2019.
- 8.Higgins, Kevin. Ailbhe Darcy - the best Irish poet of her generation?. Galway Advertiser. 11 April 2019.
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