About Annemarie Ní Churreáin

**ANNEMARIE NÍ CHURREÁIN** is a poet from the Donegal Gaeltacht. Her poetry books include Bloodroot (Doire Press, 2017), The Poison Glen (The Gallery Press, 2021) and Ghostgirl (Donegal County Archives, 2023). Her work has been shortlisted for the Shine Strong Award for Best Debut Collection (IRE) and for the Ledbury Hellens Best Second Collection (UK). She is the recipient of an Irish Arts Council’s Next Generation Artist Award, a co-recipient of The Markievicz Award and an inaugural awardee of the 2025 Hawthornden Foundation Residency, Brooklyn NY. Ní Churreáin is the current poetry editor at The Stinging Fly Magazine – Ireland’s leading literary journal.
Four poems chosen by Annemarie from her powerful debut collection BLOODROOT provide the inspirational springboard for the 2025 Lá Fhéile Bríde exhibition, celebrating Women and Creativity, organised by Embassy of Ireland The Hague, The Netherlands and Hamilton Gallery Sligo.
The exhibition, titled BLOODROOT, will open at Pulchri Studio, The Hague, The Netherlands on January 22nd, 2025.
The selected poems are, **Bog Medicine**, **Sisters**, **Six Ways to Wash Your Hands (Ayliffe 1978)** *for the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation,* and **Market Prayer**
*Photo of Annemarie Ní Churreáin: Barry McCall*

Four poems by Annemarie Ní Churreáin are reproduced here courtesy of Doire Press solely for the purpose of inspiring participating artists taking part in the Lá Fhéile Bríde exhibition Bloodroot, organised by Hamilton Gallery Sligo in partnership with Embassy of Ireland, The Hague, The Netherlands.

Download These Four poems here

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ABOUT BLOODROOT

According to The Yale Review “Ní Churreáin often captures a whole world of cultural and historical implications in a single, simple, but metaphorically rich image.” The Los Angeles Review of Books states that “Ní Churreáin can condense the prototypical life of a young Irish woman into half a page while sustaining the poem’s impact is testament to her ability as a storyteller, the vividness of her language, and the universality of the portraits she is painting...”. In a review of *Bloodroot,* The Irish Times reports that Ní Churreáin‘s poems “... with their musicality and sensuousness, as well as their fearlessness, mark the welcome appearance of a fresh and vivid new voice”.
Bloodroot is available to purchase from Doire Press at this link:
***Bloodroot / Doire Press***

Annemare Ní Churreáin and Bloodroot useful links:

Annemare Ní Churreáin and Bloodroot useful links:

Ordering Bloodroot from Doire Press.

A review of Bloodroot by Manuela Palacios-González

RTÉ Poem of the Week / Sisters by Annemarie Ní Churreáin

Podcast interview with Annemarie Ní Churreáin

UCD Irish Poetry Reading Archive