Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill - Judging Panel 1997

The daughter of native Irish speakers, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill was born in Lancashire in 1952. The family returned to Ireland in 1957 and she grew up there. After graduating from University College Cork she moved to Holland with her Turkish husband and then lived for a number of years in Turkey. She has lived in Ireland since 1980 and has become established as one of Ireland's foremost Irish language poets. Her work has been translated into many languages, including French, German, Polish, Italian, Norwegian, Estonian and Japanese and has won many international awards. She has been described as one of the most innovative and revitalising voices in modern Irish poetry.