The 2018 group is named!

13 November 2017

A series of eight portraits/eight new writers are added to the collection each year. To this end, the project participants are delighted to also announce the second list of writers for Stage 2, to be added in 2018.

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Portráidí na Scríbhneoirí Gaeilge is a multi-annual, multi-stage project. In the first stage of the project, the book and website based on the current archive of portraits has been made available to the public. In the second stage of the project, new additional portraits are being added to the collection on an annual basis, so that the archive of living Irish-language writers can be made as complete as possible over time. A series of eight portraits/eight new writers is added to the collection each year. To this end, the project participants are delighted to also announce the second such list of writers, to be added in 2018. They are:

• Cathal Ó Háinle: Former professor of Modern Irish at Trinity College Dublin and academic writer
• Doireann Ní Ghríofa: poet
• Pádraic Breathnach: Former lecturer in Irish in Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, short story writer and novelist
• Pádraigín Riggs: Former senior lecturer in Modern Irish in University College Cork, and academic writer
• Póilín Ní Chiaráin: journalist
• Ruairí Ó hUiginn: Director, School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies, and academic writer
• Siobhán Parkinson: children’s writer
• Tadhg Mac Dhonnagáin: scriptwriter, and children's writer

Portraits of these eight writers, along with biographical information and other relevant details, will be prepared in the first six months of 2018 to be published by December of next year, when the material will be launched and the 2019 list will be announced. COMHAR and Foras na Gaeilge are very grateful to the writers and photographers who have agreed to be part of this inspirational project. This is an historic publication; a commemoration of all aspects of Irish cultural heritage, especially that which has been contributed by Irish-language writers.