Siobhán Ní Shúilleabháin was a playwright, novelist, and author of short stories in Irish. She came from a farming family in County Kerry and attended Carysfort College in Blackrock near Dublin. From 1948-52, she taught in Dublin and then worked for three years on an English-Irish dictionary. In 1955 she married Patrick Leo Henry (1918-2011), a professor of ancient and medieval English history. The couple lived in Dublin, Belfast, and Connemara for the next 10 years, but eventually settled in Galway. Three of Ní Shúilleabháin’s plays were shown on Irish television and eight radio plays were broadcast on the radio, and she also wrote plays for amateur theatres. In 1974 she won the Irish Life Drama Award as well as prizes for novels, short stories, and books for young people. In her work Ní Shúilleabháin often showcased women. Arís (English Again) was a radio play about which nothing else is known. She wrote it at the age of 24, when she was a teacher in Dublin.
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