Ailbhe Darcy

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Ailbhe Darcy
Born
Ailbhe Darcy

1981 (age 4243)
Alma mater University College Dublin
University of Notre Dame
Notable work
  • Insistence (2018)
Awards

Ailbhe Darcy (born 1981) is an Irish poet and Wales Book of the Year award laureate.

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Biography

Ailbhe Darcy was born in 1981 and grew up in Dublin, Ireland. [1] In 2015, she was awarded an MFA and a PhD from the University of Notre Dame. [2] She won the 2019 Wales Book of the Year [3] [4] and the Pigott Poetry Prize at the 2019 Listowel Writers' Week with her collection Insistence, [5] which was also shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize [6] and the Irish Times Poetry Now Award. [7]

Darcy is a Reader in Creative Writing at Cardiff University. [8]

Darcy lives in Cardiff.

Bibliography

Poetry

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