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Darach Ó Scolaí. Ghnóthaigh a úrscéal An Cléireach (Leabhar Breac, 2007) Duais an Oireachtais 2007 agus Gradam Uí Shúilleabháin 2008.

PADDY BUSHE

POET

• Paddy Bushe was born in Dublin in 1948. • He was educated at UCD and worked as a teacher until 1990. • He has published seven books of poetry, the latest of which are In Ainneoin na gCloch and Hopkins on Skellig Michael. • He was a runner up in the Patrick Kavanagh Award for Poetry in 1988. • The recipient of the Oireachtas prize for poetry in 2006, Paddy Bushe was also the recipient of the 2006 Michael Hartnett Poetry Award. • He writes poetry in both English and Irish. • He lived in Austrailia for many years and now lives in Waterville in County Kerry. • He has travelled widely and given readings of his poetry and conducted poetry workshops in Thailand, China and Korea. • He has twice been awarded an Arts Council bursary (one of which was to complete a bilingual collection centred on journeys to the Far East) and has won the Strokestown International Prize, the Listowel Writers' Week Poetry Prize and Duais an Oireachtais.

Celia de Fréine is a poet, playwright and screenwriter who writes in Irish and English.

She was born in Newtownards, County Down and moved to Dublin as a child. Retaining strong links with Northern Ireland, she spent most of her summers with her extended family in Donaghadee.

She now divides her time between Dublin and Connemara.

2005 Duais Oireachtais Bronnadh breis agus €50,000 ar scríbhneoirí i gComórtais Liteartha an Oireachtais ar ócáid i mBaile Átha Cliath aréir. Bhuaigh Ré Ó Laighléis an chéad duais €4,000 d'úrscéal,

Celia's plays have been widely produced and won many awards. Four of her plays have been awarded Duais an Oireachtais for best full-length play: Anraith Neantóige; Cóirín na dTonn; Tearmann; and Meanmarc.

Tom Cullivan was born in 1939 in the cathedral and county town of Cavan, 70 miles north west of Dublin in the Irish lakelands. He began playing the piano at an early age and had formal lessons locally until his mid-teens. The play and the music grew together to become "Aisling Mhic Artain" which won the national drama prize, Duais an Oireachtais, in 1975 and which received its first production at the Peacock Theatre during the Dublin Theatre Festival of 1977.

Pádraic Ó Conaire ag dul ar stáitse ar an 7ú de Dheireadh Fómhair ag 1 a cloig san Ionaid Axis. Is seó aonair dhátheangach é seo a chuifidh Diarmuid de Faoite i láthair. Déanann trácht ar shaol an mhór-scríbhneora agus d'eirigh leis an Stewart Parker Award (2002) agus Duais an Oireachtais a bhaint amach.

Mairtin O Cadhain's novel Cre na Cille (Graveyard Soil) won the Oireachtas literary competition in 1947.

Athnuachan (1995) was published after lying in typescript since 1951, when it won the Oireachtas prize. Ó Cadhain did not wish to publish it in his lifetime, because the central character, Beartla Mór, a hypochondriac old man obsessed with death, was based upon his uncle.

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