Dairena Ní Chinnéide
Occupation
  • Poet
  • broadcast journalist
Language
  • Irish
  • English
Alma materDublin City University

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

Biography

Ní Chinnéide hails from the Dingle Peninsula, County Kerry.[1] She graduated from Dublin City University in 1989 with an honours degree in Communications studies.[2] After working at Radio Kerry, she joined Century Radio.[2] She was the final voice heard on Century Radio before it closed in November 1991.[1] She moved back to Kerry to work at RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta.[2]

Ní Chinnéide's first book of poetry was published by Cló Iar-Chonnachta in 2005.[2] deleted by Salmon Poetry (2019) was her first collection in English.[3]

Ní Chinnidéide was appointed writer-in-residence at Dublin City University for the 2017-2018 year.[4] Her first English language book of poetry was published in 2019.[1]

Official website is at dairenanichinneide.com[5]

Selected works

  • An Trodaí & Dánta Eile/The Warrior & Other Poems, 2006
  • Máthair an Fhiaigh/The Raven's Mother, 2008
  • An tEachtrannach/Das Fremde/The Stranger, 2008
  • Pol na mBabies, 2008
  • Bleachtaire na Seirce, 2011
  • Cloithear Aistear Anama, Coiscéim, 2013
  • Labhraíonn Fungie/Fungie Speaks, 2015
  • Fé Gheasa/Spellbound, 2016
  • Tairseach, Éabhlóid, 2021
  • Cinnlínte, Breaking Verse, 2022[6]

Full list of published works:[7]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Clancy, Paddy (2 December 2019). "Paddy Clancy: My tribute to newsreader and poet Dairna Ni Chinnide". Irish Mirror. Archived from the original on 2 December 2019. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Foley, Catherine (8 August 2006). "New chapter in life and verse". The Irish Times. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
  3. ↑ "About".
  4. ↑ Ni Dhuinn, Siún (29 September 2017). "Filíocht agus Fossils: Dairena Ní Chinnéide ar a ról úr" [Poetry and Fossils: Dairena Ní Chinnéide on her new role]. RTÉ (in Irish). Retrieved 28 March 2020.
  5. ↑ "Dairena Ní Chinnéide: Irish bilingual Poet | File Dátheangach". Dairena Ní Chinnéide. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
  6. ↑ "Cinnlínte : Breaking Verse".
  7. ↑ "Published Work".
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