Bilingual writer, 89, wins Farmgate Café National Poetry Award
The Dublin-born former Oireachtas Prize winner, who grew up in Tipperary, was born in 1934 and has lived in Carlow since 1965. She studied English and Latin at UCD followed by a Higher Diploma in Education, and is a bilingual writer of poetry, short stories, and drama. Picture: David Creedon
A nearly 90-year-old bilingual writer who only began writing in her 50s has won the Farmgate Café National Poetry Award, as the opening of the Cork International Poetry Festival got underway.
Deirdre Brennan, who has published 16 books including 12 collections of poetry in Irish and English, was presented with €2,000 for the best full-length poetry collection in English (including translations from other languages) published in 2022, after wowing judges Colm Breathnach, Eleanor Hooker, and Thomas McCarthy.
