(Ireland, 1958)
By Doireann Ní Ghríofa Ceaití Ní Bheildiúin is a teacher, poet, filmmaker and visual artist based in the west of Ireland. She was born in Dublin as Cathi Weldon, but upon moving to the Dingle Peninsula in 2003, she immersed herself in the language and Gaeltacht culture of her new home and took the Irish language version of her name. It was in this phase of her life, too, that she began to write poetry. Her destination is noteworthy in itself, as this peninsula holds famously fertile soil for Irish literature — it is ground which has nourished and borne the work of Ní …