About Dairena

File dátheangach í Dairena Ní Chinnéide, tá 11 cnuasach filíochta foilsithe aici. Tairseach foilsithe ag Éabhlóid (2021) a cnuasach is déanaí.  Sé’n leabhar deleted (2019) le Salmon Poetry, a céad cnuasach as Béarla. I measc cnuasaigh eile filíochta atá foilsithe aici tá Fé Gheasa : Spellbound’ Arlen House (2016), Cloithear Aistear Anama, Coiscéim (2013) agus Labhraíonn Fungie / Fungie Speaks Ponc Press  (2015).Ghóthaigh sí Patrick & Katherine Fellowship, Damhachtain Litríochta Gaeilge ón gComhairle Ealaíon agus Ealaín na Gaeltachta. Iar iriseoir agus craoltóir, ateangaire agus léiritheoir teilifíse í.

Dairena Ní Chinnéide is a bilingual poet from Ireland. The most recent of her eleven published collections is Tairseach by Éabhlóid (2021) deleted  by Salmon Poetry (2019) was her first collection in English. Among her previous collections are Fé Gheasa : Spellbound, Arlen House, (2016), An Trodaí & Dánta Eile / The Warrior & Other Poems, Cló Iar Chonnacht, (2006), Cloithear Aistear Anama, Coiscéim, (2013), and  Labhraíonn Fungie / Fungie Speaks, Ponc Press (2015). She has received numerous awards for her writing including Irish Language Literature Bursaries from the Arts Council of Ireland , Ealaín na Gaeltachta, Munster Literature Centre Covid Bursary and a Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh Fellowship. She was Irish Language Writer-in-Residence for DCU (Dublin City University) 2017-2018. Nominated Poet Laureate for Listowel as part of the Poetry Ireland Poetrytown project in 2021. Currently she is Writer-in- Residence for the language and culture organization Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne with Ealaín na Gaeltachta. She has performed her poetry at festivals and literary events throughout Ireland, Europe and the USA. She has participated in several residencies in Cill Rialaig Arts Retreat, also The Tyrone Guthrie Centre and CCI Paris. Dairena is a former broadcaster and journalist, television producer and simultaneous interpreter.