About Ailbhe Darcy
Born 1981. Ailbhe Darcy is an Irish poet, university teacher, literary scholar and writer.
Ailbhe Darcy (born 1981) is an Irish poet and Wales Book of the Year award laureate.
Biography Ailbhe Darcy was born in 1981 and grew up in Dublin, Ireland. In 2015, she was awarded an MFA and a PhD from the University of Notre Dame. She won the 2019 Wales Book of the Year and the Pigott Poetry Prize at the 2019 Listowel Writers' Week with her collection Insistence, which was also shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Irish Times Poetry Now Award.
Darcy is a Reader in Creative Writing at Cardiff University.
Darcy lives in Cardiff.
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Irish poet
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Ailbhe Darcy was born in 1981 in County Dublin.
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Ailbhe Darcy is a poet, university teacher, literary scholar and writer.
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