Mícheál Ó hAodha

Mícheál Ó hAodha (born 1969) is an Irish poet and nonfiction writer. He also works in the departments of history and comparative literature at the University of Limerick, where he is a part-time lecturer.

Works Ó hAodha's poems have been collected in the books Dúchas Dóchasach ["Survivor": Representations of the New Irish] (as Michael Hayes, illustrated by Jean Hakizimana, Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2007) Slán le hÉireann [A Farewell to Ireland: Migrant Poems] (Coiscéim, 2012) Leabhar Dubh an tSneachta [The Black Book of Snow] (2015) Leabhar na nAistear [The Book of Journeys] (Coiscéim, 2017) Leabhar na nAistear II (Coiscéim, 2019)

He is also the author of: Canting with Cauley: a Glossary of Travellers' Cant/Gammon (with William Cauley, A. & A. Farmar, 2006) Parley with me: a Compendium of Fairground Speech (A. & A. Farmar, 2006) Postcolonial Artist: Johnny Doran and Irish Traveller Tradition (with David Duohy, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008) "Insubordinate Irish": Travellers in the Text (Manchester University Press, 2011)

He has a particular interest in minority groups including Irish Travellers and the Irish-speaking minority of the west of Ireland and has written many books in collaboration with Travellers, Roma, fairground/circus people and others. He has also written on the experiences of Irish emigrants, and the Irish experience in Britain.