Aifric Mac Aodha

 

Aifric Mac Aodha is eagarthóir of gorse. Her first poetry collection, Gabháil Syrinx (The Taking of Syrinx), was published by An Sagart in 2010, and she has had work in various magazines and journals, including POETRY Young Irish Poets. She is the literary editor of Comhar and the Irish language poetry editor of The Stinging Fly, and has been translated to many languages, including French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Czech.

“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 Ríordáin,  Irish Times