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Dairena Ní Chinnéide
Dairena Ní Chinnéide
Occupation	Poet; broadcast journalist;
Language	Irish; English;
Alma mater	Dublin City University

Dairena Ní Chinnéide is an Irish poet and former broadcast journalist, interpreter and television producer. She has published 12 books of mainly bilingual poetry in Irish and one in English, titled 'deleted', published by Salmon Poetry. One of her better known poems is Jeaic ar Scoil.^{[citation needed]} She has received several awards for her writing, including from The Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh Fellowship, The Arts Council of Ireland and Éalaíon na Gaeltachta Literature Awards. She was nominated Poet Laureate for Listowel during the Poetry Ireland initiative, Poetrytown 2021.

Biography

Ní Chinnéide is from the Dingle Peninsula, County Kerry.^[1] She graduated from Dublin City University in 1989 with a 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] Her work, deleted, published by Salmon Poetry (2019) was her first collection in English.^[3]^[1]

Ní Chinnidéide was appointed writer-in-residence at Dublin City University for the 2017-2018 year.^[4]

Selected works

Ní Chinnéide's works include:^[5]

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]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c 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.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Foley, Catherine (8 August 2006). "New chapter in life and verse". The Irish Times. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
^ "About".
^ 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.
^ "Published Work".
^ "Cinnlínte : Breaking Verse".