Dairena Ní Chinnéide

Dairena Ní Chinnéide is an Irish poet and former broadcast journalist, interpreter and television producer. She has published 12 books of mainly bilingual poetry in Irish and one in English, titled 'deleted', published by Salmon Poetry. One of her better known poems is ''Jeaic ar Scoil''. She has received several awards for her writing, including from The Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh Fellowship, The Arts Council of Ireland and Éalaíon na Gaeltachta Literature Awards. She was nominated Poet Laureate for Listowel during the Poetry Ireland initiative, Poetrytown 2021. Provided by Wikipedia