Aifric Mac Aodha

Aifric Mac Aodha was born in 1979. Her first collection, Gabháil Syrinx, was published in 2010. She has taught in St Petersburg, New York and Canada and has lectured in old and modern Irish at UCD. She lives in Dublin where she works for the Irish-language publisher, An Gúm. She was the winner of the Oireachtas Prize for Poetry (2017) and was Irish-Language Writer-in-Residence at Dublin City University (DCU) in 2023. She has published two bilingual collections with The Gallery Press and Aifric’s Irish-language poems are translated into English by David Wheatley. Foreign News was published in 2017 and her new collection Old Friends in October 2024.

David Wheatley was born in Dublin. He has published four collections with The Gallery Press and two with Carcanet Press, the most recent of which, Child Ballad, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. A widely published critic, he now lives in Scotland with his family and teaches at the University of Aberdeen. He translated Aifric Mac Aodha’s new collection of Irish-language poems Old Friends into English.

Aifric Mac Aodha’s attendance at West Cork Literary Festival is supported by the Gallery Press as part of their Gallery Goes series of events