Mayo County Council - Writer In Residence 2014

Mayo County Council Writer In Residence 2014 – Diarmuid de Faoite

Mayo County Council Arts Office is delighted to announce Diarmuid de Faoite as Mayo County Council Writer in Residence 2014. 

Diarmuid de Faoite is an actor, writer, lecturer and drama therapist.  He has received several awards with his own company, POC productions, as well as the Stewart Parker Trust/BBC NI Best Script Award for his Pádraic Ó Conaire stage play, the Celtic Media Festival Best Feature Documentary Award for the drama documentary Pádraic Ó Conaire -an Fear, and the Irish Language Media Best Actor Award for his role in Corp+Anam. His new collection of mythological tales, Eachtraí Thuatha Dé Danann in Éirinn, was joint winner in the new writing section of An tOireachtas, 2013, and Rogha Scéalta, a collection of Ó Conaire stories edited by Diarmuid was shortlisted for Gradam Uí Shúilleabháin, 2008.

Diarmuid has written sketches, drama and drama documentaries for RTE and TG4 as well as translating various works. His translation of Scothscéalta for Cló Iar Chonnachta is due for publication this year. Diarmuid recently turned to poetry with poems appearing in The Galway Review and Feasta. He lectures part-time in dramatherapy in NUI, Maynooth and in aspects of performance and creative writing in NUI, Galway.

Mayo County Council Arts Office has a strong history of working with writers over the years.  Previous writers who have held residencies in Mayo include Ré Ó Laighléis, Sean Lysaght, Máire Holmes, John Breen, Paddy Bushe, Éilís Ni Dhuibhne Nuala NíDhomhnaill, Biddy Jenkinson, Eoghan Mac Giolla Bhríde & Manchán Magan. 

Further details of the residency including open writing clinics, readings etc will be available in the coming weeks, please contact Mayo Arts Office on 094-9047558 or email mayoarts@mayococo.ie .