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Ní Dhuibhne was born in Dublin in 1954.
(Eilis Ni Dhuibhne is generally considered to be one of Ir...)
Eilis Ni Dhuibhne is generally considered to be one of Ireland's finest practitioners of the short story. This book brings together nine of her best stories from her first two collections, ""Blood and Water"" and ""Eating Women is Not Recommended,"" as well as three brand-new stories. Ranging from the ultra realistic ""Some Hours in the Life of a Witch,"" to the surreal fantasy world of ""Fulfillment"" and ""The Wife of Bath,"" the stories describe ordinary and not so ordinary life, and the lives of women in particular, in the feminist and post-feminist eras in Ireland.
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(Anna Kelly Sweeney is a writer of popular fiction intent ...)
Anna Kelly Sweeney is a writer of popular fiction intent on worldly success. Leo is an idealist who lives in rural County Kerry and devotes himself to poetry, culture and innumerable worthy causes. When Anna falls in love with the handsome and enigmatic Vincy, and Leo with troubled publicist Kate, the consequences of their glimpsed happiness reverberate beyond their own insulated worlds. Inspired by Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, this panoramic and compulsively readable new novel is an intelligent, witty and fiercely humane insight into modern Ireland. ""In this modern take on Anna Karenina, Anna Kelly Sweeney is an affluent Dublin housewife whose vast literary and financial aspirations fail to match her talents. . . A bruising commentary on the new Irish culture conveyed with a grin."" --Booklist
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( Anna Kelly Sweeney is a writer of popular fiction inten...)
Anna Kelly Sweeney is a writer of popular fiction intent on worldly success. Leo is an idealist who lives in rural County Kerry and devotes himself to poetry, culture and innumerable worthy causes. When Anna falls in love with the handsome and enigmatic Vincy, and Leo with the troubled publicist Kate, the consequences of their glimpsed happiness reverberate beyond their own insulated world. Inspired by Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, this panoramic and compulsively readable novel is a brilliant satire on the Dublin literary scene and on the Celtic Tiger and its impact on Irish society. If you enjoyed Fox, Swallow, Scarecrow, you might also enjoy Eílís Ní Dhuibhne’s novel The Dancers Dancing and her short story collection The Shelter of Neighbours.
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(Ruán, Emma, and Colm are from different worlds despite li...)
Ruán, Emma, and Colm are from different worlds despite living in the same city: their schools, houses, and groups of friends mark them as snobs or scobies in each other's eyes. When a terrible accident devastates Ruan's family, he must find a way of coping, with help from Emma. Meanwhile Colm goes on the run from a crime he did not commit. As the three teenagers attempt to deal with their own family crises and study for their final school exams, their lives become intertwined. A keenly perceptive account of Dublin life, Snobs, Dogs and Scobies is about social stereotypes, class differences, and teenage friendships. First published in Irish asHurlamaboc, the book won a Bisto Merit Award in 2007, a Duais Oireachtais in 2006, and was shortlisted for Irish Book of the Year 2006.
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(The girls are spending a month in a Donegal Gaeltacht, le...)
The girls are spending a month in a Donegal Gaeltacht, learning Irish language and culture from their teachers and from the local people they are boarding with. They respond to the untamed landscape of river, hill and sea, finding in it unnerving echoes of their own submerged - and now emerging - wildnesses. In this richly complex novel, Eilis Ni Dhuibhne, one of Ireland's most exciting and original writers, uses the experiences and emotions of girls on the cusp of womanhood to explore dangerous territories of sex, politics, class, and Irishness. ""A coming of age novel that vividly depicts life in 1970s Ireland by chronicling the experiences of teenagers attending an Irish language camp...offers readers meaty issues, experimental form, and beautiful language."" -- Paige Reynolds, Holy Cross Magazine.
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Ní Dhuibhne was born in Dublin in 1954.
She attended University College Dublin (University College Dublin), where she studied Pure English, then Folklore. In 1978-1979 she studied at the University of Copenhagen, and in 1982 was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy from the National University of Ireland (National University of Ireland).
She was awarded the University College Dublin Entrance scholarship for English, and two post graduate scholarships in Folklore. She has worked in the Department of Irish Folklore in University College Dublin, and for many years as a curator in the National Library of Ireland. Ní Dhuibhne was married to Bo Almqvist (died 2013) and has three children: Marja, Ragnar and Olaf.
Further information on Éilís Ní Dhuibhne"s work may be found in Rebecca Pelan, ed, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne: Perspectives.
Galway, Arlen House, 2009.
(Ruán, Emma, and Colm are from different worlds despite li...)
(The girls are spending a month in a Donegal Gaeltacht, le...)
(From Dublin to Donegal and on to more exotic climes, the ...)
(Eilis Ni Dhuibhne is generally considered to be one of Ir...)
(Anna Kelly Sweeney is a writer of popular fiction intent ...)
( Anna Kelly Sweeney is a writer of popular fiction inten...)
(A collection of short stories by Eilis Ni Dhuibhne. Deali...)
(Book by Eilis Ni Dhuibhne)
Aosdána]
She is a member of Aosdána.