Angela Bourke

Angela Bourke (former married name Partridge) is an Irish author, historian and academic who focuses on Irish oral tradition and literature in her books, lectures, and broadcasting.

Biography Bourke is a Dublin-born writer, oral historian and academic with an interest in the voice of women in folklore. Educated in University College Dublin with an MA in Celtic Studies she travelled to Université de Bretagne Occidentale in 1974. Bourke completed her doctorate in women's religious poetry in Irish folklore, also from University College Dublin. She has travelled widely to other universities in Japan, Europe and the US as a guest and visiting professor, including Harvard University from 1992-93.

Bourke is a member of the Royal Irish Academy.

Awards The Frank O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, 1992 The Irish Times Literature Prize for non-fiction in 2000 and American Conference for Irish Studies James S. Donnelly Prize, 2001 with The Burning of Bridget Cleary: A True Story

Selected works

Folklore studies and biography

Caoineadh na dTrí Muire: Téama na Páise i bhfílocht bhéil na Gaeilge (Baile Átha Cliath: An Clóchomhar Tta, 1983) ‘Adventures with old things’, in The Dublin Review, 4 (Autumn 2001), pp. 5–13