Caitríona Ní Chléirchín
Is file, criticeoir agus léachtóir le Gaeilge i gColáiste Phádraig, Droim Conrach í Caitríona Ní Chléirchín. Is as Contae Mhuineacháin ó dhúchas don fhile seo. Bhuaigh a céad chnuasach filíochta Crithloinnir an chéad duais san Oireachtas i gComórtas na Scríbhneoirí Úra 2010. Bhuaigh a dara cnuasach An Bhrídeach Sí (2014) Duais Mhíchíl Uí Airtnéide in 2015. Chríochnaigh sí a dochtúireacht ar fhilíocht Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill agus Biddy Jenkinson in 2014. Tá dánta foilsithe aici in Comhar, Irish Pages, Cyphers, An tUltach agus An Guth agus cinn eile. Chuir Liam Carson a saothar i gcomparáid leis an fhile Rúiseach, Marina Tsvetaeva. Liriceoir nua an ghrá is ea í, mar chomharba ar Mháire Mhac an tSaoi.
Caitríona Ní Chléirchín is an Irish-language poet, critic and lecturer at St. Patrick’s College, Drumcondra. She is originally from Monaghan and published her début collection of poetry in Irish in 2010, Crithloinnir, which won first prize in the Oireachtas competition for new writers. Her second collection, An Bhrídeach Sí, published in 2014, has won the Michael Hartnett Prize 2015. She completed her doctorate on the poetry of Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and Biddy Jenkinson in 2014. She has published poetry in Comhar, Irish Pages, Cyphers, The Stinging Fly, An tUltach and An Guth and others. Liam Carson has compared her work to that of the famous Russian poet, Marina Tsvetaeva. She is the new love lyricist writing in Irish today and is strongly influenced by the poetry of Máire Mhac an tSaoi.