Career
Forde was raised in Market Street, Galway, a fluent Irish speaker. While working with Macnas she took a year"s leave from teaching to write her first book, Tír faoi Thoinn. However, an opportunity to become Director of the Galway Arts Festival (proposed by Ollie Jennings in 1990) meant that she never returned to teaching.
She left in 1995, subsequently working in Ros na Rún, Aifric and Raidió Teilifís Éireann soap Fair City.
Forde"s other work has included a creative programme for children at the festival, which developed into the Baboró International Arts Festival for Children.