| Poet, painter, playwright, graphic artist. Born in County
Clare, she was educated at the St. Louis Convent, Balla, County
Mayo. She trained as a primary teacher at Carysfort College,
Dublin.
Her short stories and poems have been published in Ireland,
the USA and Italy. Exhibited widely in Ireland, her paintings
and graphics have also appeared in exhibitions in Spain, Japan
and Hawaii.
Eclipsed, her stage play, premiered at the Punchbag
Theatre in Galway and went on to the 1992 Edinburgh Fringe
Festival where it won the Scotsman Fringe First Award and
was short-listed for the London Independent Theatre Award.
The USA premiere of the play won the Moss Hart Theatre Award
in 1994.
Awarded an Arts Council Grant in 1993, her poetry and prose
won prizes at many literary festivals in Ireland. Drawing
from the world of images, from European and Classical Art,
from mythic symbols and shapes, her painting turned to writing,
in particular to poetry and she combined both in her first
collection. The themes of pain and personal revelation are
handled with courage and integrity in all of this multi-talented
artist's work but nowhere with such intelligence and sensitivity
as in her poetry.
She lives in Galway city where she is a member of the Galway
Writers' Workshop.
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