Efacis Annemarie Ní Churreáin is a poet from the Donegal Gaeltacht. Her work often explores silence and power dynamics in the context of Irish landscape, history and the State. Her books include Bloodroot (Doire Press, 2017), Town (The Salvage Press, 2018) and The Poison Glen (The Gallery Press, 2021).
The Yale Review states that “Ní Churreáin captures a whole world of cultural and historical implications in a single, simple, but metaphorically rich image.” The Los Angeles Review of Books reports “That Ní Churreáin can condense the prototypical life of a young Irish woman into half a page while sustaining the poem’s impact is testament to her ability as a storyteller, the vividness of her language, and the universality of the portraits she is painting.”
Ní Churreáin has toured her work extensively in Ireland and abroad. Most recently she has been invited to perform at festivals in Europe, the U.S. and India. Her work has been translated into Italian, Galego and Malayalam. Her books are taught on several international university courses including the Writing Program at Florida Gulf Coast University and the Women's & Gender Studies Program at the University of South Carolina.
Ní Churreáin is also co-librettist of Elsewhere, a new opera by Straymaker (Ireland), Miroirs Étendus (France) and Opéra de Rouen Normandie, in partnership with Irish National Opera. The opera debuted in 2021 at The Abbey—National Theatre of Ireland.
A recipient of The Next Generation Artist Award (by President Michael D. Higgins on behalf of the Arts Council) and of The Markievicz Award, Ní Churreáin has received literary fellowships from Akademie Schloss Solitude Germany, Jack Kerouac House Florida and Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris, France. In 2022 Ní Churreáin was the 2022 Decades of Centenaries Artist in Residence at Donegal Archives Service.
Ní Churreáin is a member of the Arts Council Writers in Prisons Panel. She lives and teaches in Dublin
Links
A link to the ARENA audio interview
https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/22037127/
Dublin Review of Books
https://drb.ie/articles/the-stendhal-of-norfolk/
Website
Photo credit: Enda Rowan
