Darach Ó Scolaí is a writer and publisher. His novel An Cléireach (2007) won the Oireachtas Prize 2007 and Gradam Uí Shúilleabháin ‘Irish language Book of the Year’ 2008, and his edition of Táin Bó Cuailnge won the Aodán Mac Poilín Memorial Prize 2017 and Gradam Uí Shúilleabháin ‘Irish language Book of the Year 2018. His most recent novel Súil an Daill (2021) won the Oireachtas Prize 2019. 

Hi play Coinneáil Orainn (2006) won the Walter Macken Prize and a BBC Stewart Parker Award, and was adapted for the radio in 2009. As well as prose works and plays, he has written screenplays for the short films Cosa Nite (1998) and An Leabhar (2000), and for the television series Na Cloigne (2010).

Photo credit: Seán Ó Mainnín