Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
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Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill was born in Lancashire, England in 1952 and raised in Corca Dhuibhne, the Irish-speaking area in Co. Kerry. After graduating from the National University of Ireland, Cork she spent some time teaching, then emigrated, spending most of the time in Holland and Turkey, before returning home to Ireland after seven years. She lives in Co. Dublin. She published her first collection of poems An Dealg Droighin in 1981 and has published extensively since. She is one of Ireland's most well-known Irish language writers.
She has also won numerous international awards for works which have been translated into French, German, Polish, Italian, Norwegian, Estonian, Japanese and English.