{"id":856,"date":"2024-11-25T19:50:59","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T19:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tse.spyrosntanos.com\/person\/ailbhe-darcy\/"},"modified":"2025-06-13T11:06:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T10:06:28","slug":"ailbhe-darcy","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/person\/ailbhe-darcy\/","title":{"rendered":"Ailbhe Darcy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ailbhe Darcy was born in Dublin in 1981 and grew up there before studying at the University of Notre Dame in the US, and teaching there and at the University of M\u00fcnster in Germany. Her work was included in the Bloodaxe anthologies <em>Identity Parade<\/em> and <em>Voice Recognition<\/em>, and in her pamphlet <em>A Fictional Dress<\/em> (tall-lighthouse, 2009). <em>Imaginary Menagerie<\/em> (Bloodaxe Books, 2011), her first book-length collection, was shortlisted for Ireland&#8217;s dlr Strong Award at Poetry Now \/ Mountains to Sea. Her second collection,<em> Insistence<\/em>, was published by Bloodaxe in 2018. As well as being shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and the <em>Irish Times<\/em> Poetry Now Award, it won the Pigott Poetry Prize, the<em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Roland Mathias Poetry Award, and was awarded Wales Book of the Year 2019.\u00a0Ailbhe lectures in Creative Writing at Cardiff University. <em>Author photo \u00a9 John Harvey<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ailbhe Darcy was born in Dublin in 1981 and grew up there before studying at the University of Notre Dame in the US, and teaching there and at the University of M\u00fcnster in Germany. Her work was included in the Bloodaxe anthologies Identity Parade and Voice Recognition, and in her pamphlet A Fictional Dress (tall-lighthouse, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":857,"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-856","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}