Aifric Mac Aodha

Mac Aodha is an original voice and a very fine poet . . . a strong female, feminist voice, endowed with a canny sense of the unheimlich, whose poetry enriches our literary life both at home and ‘out foreign’.
— Cliona Ní Riordáín, The Irish Times

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 now works for the Irish-language publisher, An Gúm. She was the winner of the Oireachtas Prize for Poetry (2017). She is currently Irish-Language Writer-in-Residence at Dublin City University (DCU).

Foreign News (2017, bilingual) is Aifric Mac Aodha’s first collection with The Gallery Press. With poems in Irish and English she finds a perfect counterpart in David Wheatley.