Amano, Tomás Ó Coileáin and Gormfhlaith Ní Shíocháin Ní Bheoláin. Le bean an tí Ciara ni É.

Amano is a multidisciplinary artist based in Killarney, Co. Kerry. She is a singer, poet and songwriter working bilingually in English and Gaeilge. Born in Kyūshū and raised in Kerry, her work is informed by her Irish and Japanese heritage, a dynamic relationship with the natural world, and her academic studies in world religions, political science and cultural heritage. Amano’s poetry and writing has been published by Good Day Cork (2023), Channel Magazine (2023), EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum (2023, 2022), Motley Magazine (2022, 2021), and Garland Realm (2020). She was the winner of the Irish Society for the Academic Study of Religions’ Undergraduate Essay Award in 2022. In 2024 Amano will release her debut alternative-folk EP Hanabi, as well as a collaborative Irish language music project entitled Thread with Cork music producer Kalabanx (Garry McCarthy).

Is file, múinteoir, athair, agus cúlbáire (uaireanta) é Tomás Ó Coileáin, a rugadh agus a tógadh i gCathair Luimnigh. D’fhoilsigh Revival Press a chéad chnuasach filíochta, “Inside Out” ag deireadh 2020, agus tiocfaidh a chéad chnuasach dátheangach, “Ar An Leoithne”, amach in Aibreán 2024. Foilsíodh dánta i mBéarla agus i nGaeilge aige in The Stony Thursday Book, The White House Revival Poetry Journal, The Ogham Stone, Scothsmaointe Gan Smál, Féile Raifteirí (Baile Locha Riach), Comhar, Irisleabhar Mhá Nuad, agus Stanzas. Eisean eagarthóir filíochta Revival Press ó Lughnasa 2023.

Is file, scríbhneoir, aisteoir, feadógaí, pianódóir, amhránaí ar an sean-nós agus rinceoir seite í Gormfhlaith Ní Shíocháin Ní Bheoláin. Tá mórán duaiseanna bainte ag a cuid scríbhneoireachta agus ceoil, agus tá a saothar le léamh i bhfoilsiúcháin éagsúla, ina measc sna cnuasaigh Lampa ar Lasadh: Gradam Mháire Mhac an tSaoi agus Washing Windows Too: Irish Women Write Poetry, san iris Feasta, in Comhar. Ghlac sí páirt sa chlár Céadlínte Éigse Éireann sa bhliain 2023.

Gormfhlaith Ní Shíocháin Ní Bheoláin is a poet, writer, actor, pianist, sean-nós singer and set-dancer. Her writing and music has won many awards, and her work is published in the collections Lampa ar Lasadh: Gradam Mháire Mhac an tSaoi and Washing Windows Too: Irish Women Write Poetry, and in the serials Feasta and Comhar. She was part of the Poetry Ireland Introductions Irish-language stream in 2023.

Scríbhneoir agus craoltóir í Ciara Ní É a bhfuil a cuid fiíochta léite aici i Nua-Eabhrac, i Londain, sa Bhruiséil, sa tSualainn, agus sa bhaile in Éirinn. Bhí sí ar an liosta ‘100 Women Changing Ireland in 2022’ de chuid an Irish Examiner. Bhí sí mar Ealaíontóir Cónaithe le Scoil na Gaeilge, an Léinn Cheiltigh & an Bhéaloidis UCD 2023, leis an Dublin Fringe Festival in 2022, agus le DCU in 2020. Foilsíodh saothar dá cuid sna díolaim Marrow/Cnámh agus Smior, Washing Windows Too, Queering the Green, agus in irisí éagsúla. Chomhbhunaitheoir an chomharghrúpa AerachAiteachGaelach í agus is ambasadóir í le hÁras Scríbhneoirí na hÉireann. Faoi láthair tá sí ag obair ar a chéad ghearrscannán mar scríbhneoir agus stiúrthóir.

Writer and broadcaster Ciara Ní É has performed in New York, London, Brussels, and Sweden. She was chosen as one of the Irish Examiner’s ‘100 Women Changing Ireland in 2022’. She was Artist in Residence UCD School of Irish, Celtic Studies & Folklore 2023, with the Dublin Fringe Festival in 2022, and with DCU in 2020. Her work has been published in the recent anthologies Bone and Marrow/Cnámh agus Smior, Queering the Green and Washing Windows Too, in various journals, and on YouTube. She is a co-founder of the LGBTQ+ arts collective AerachAiteachGaelach and is an Irish Writers Centre ambassador. She is currently working on her first short film as writer and director.