Doireann Ní Ghríofa has won the Rooney Prize of Irish Literature, the oldest literary award in Ireland.
She was given the award at the 40th annual ceremony in an event at Trinity College Dublin. The Irish Times was there:
Announcing the 2016 winner, Ireland Chair of Poetry and selection committee member Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin said: “Doireann Ní Ghríofa is a poet to watch, with a fresh view of the world: apparently ordinary houses, shops, common objects and activities. The sureness of her touch and the skill with which she handles language and shapes her poems are almost invisible, but it is through them that she achieves the feat of making us look again at the usual and illuminates its pulsating strangeness.