Two DCU/The Arts Council Writers-in-Residence announced
DCU and The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon have announced the appointment of Muireann Ní Chíobháin as Irish-language Writer-in-Residence in Fiontar & Scoil na Gaeilge, DCU and Aingeala Flannery as Writer-in-Residence in the DCU School of English.
Muireann Ní Chíobháin's professional career has primarily been in screenwriting and as an author children’s fiction in both Irish and English. She has written five Irish-language books for children, which have been published by Futa Fata: Scúnc agus Smúirín, three books in the Eoinín series, and Gealach agus Grian, which was published in November 2023.
She has developed and written many television programmes for young people which can be seen on TG4, RTÉjr, Amazon Prime and Apple TV and was a commissioning editor and executive producer of children’s animation and drama for the launch of Irish language children’s television channel Cúla 4.
Aingeala Flannery is a writer, journalist, and broadcaster. In 2019, her short story Visiting Hours won the Harper’s Bazaar Short Story Prize. She is a former Irish Writers Centre Novel Fair winner and has twice been a finalist in the RTÉ Short Story Competition. Her personal essays have been published by IMAGE magazine and by Paper Visual Art (PVA), and broadcast on RTÉ Sunday Miscellany.
Aingeala was awarded a Literature Bursary by the Arts Council of Ireland in 2020 and 2021. Her critically acclaimed debut The Amusements was published by Penguin Sandycove in 2022. It won both the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year at Listowel Writers’ Week 2023 and the John McGahern Prize in association with the University of Liverpool. Aingeala is deputy publisher of The Dublin Review and the producer/presenter of The Dublin Review Podcast.