• called Toscairí, of the Aosdána. It meets several times a year to deal with the administration and external relations of Aosdána, reports to every General...
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  • Saoi (redirect from Saoi of Aosdána)
    honour bestowed by Aosdána, a state-supported association of Irish creative artists. The title is awarded, for life, to an existing Aosdána member. There are...
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  • Council (2016). "Current members". Aosdána. Retrieved 9 January 2017. The Arts Council (2016). "Former members". Aosdána. Retrieved 9 January 2017. The Arts...
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    author Dermot Healy – Aosdána Randolph Healy – poet Seamus Heaney – Saoi of Aosdána, Poet and Nobel laureate Aidan Higgins – Aosdána Anthony Holten – author...
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    Claire Keegan (category Aosdána members)
    Awards". irishtimes.com. Retrieved 23 November 2023. "Literature". Aosdána. "Aosdána elects 10 new members and announces Camille Souter as Saoi". The Arts...
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    Joseph O'Connor (category Aosdána members)
    Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ) and a member of the Irish artists' association Aosdána. O'Connor is the eldest of five children and brother of singer Sinéad O'Connor...
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  • printmaker based in the Dingle Peninsula. Simonds-Gooding is a member of Aosdána. Her brother was Dublin-based business executive Anthony Simonds-Gooding...
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    Edna O'Brien (category Aosdána members)
    victim of the Chibok kidnapping in Nigeria. In 2015 she was elected to Aosdána by her fellow artists and honoured with the title Saoi. She was the recipient...
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    Samuel Beckett (category Aosdána members)
    with Jorge Luis Borges. He was the first person to be elected Saoi of Aosdána in 1984. Samuel Barclay Beckett was born in the Dublin suburb of Foxrock...
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    Seamus Heaney (category Aosdána members)
    Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and in 1998 was bestowed the title Saoi of Aosdána. He received numerous prestigious awards. Heaney is buried at St. Mary's...
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  • Camille Souter (category Aosdána members)
    landscape artist. She lived and worked on Achill Island and was a Saoi of Aosdána. Souter was born Betty Pamela Holmes in Northampton, England, on 22 October...
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  • Jim Doherty (musician) (category Aosdána members)
    Doherty (born 1939) is an Irish composer and jazz pianist. He is a member of Aosdána, an elite association of Irish artists. Jim Doherty was born in 1939; he...
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    Colm Tóibín (category Aosdána members)
    of Thomas Mann) won the Folio Prize. His fellow artists elected him to Aosdána and he won the biennial "UK and Ireland Nobel" David Cohen Prize in 2021...
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    John Banville (category Aosdána members)
    on 14 November 2017. Retrieved 25 October 2017. "Former Members of Aosdána". Aosdána. Archived from the original on 7 October 2007. Retrieved 27 October...
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  • Tom Murphy (playwright) (category Aosdána members)
    Review. Retrieved 19 October 2013. Tom Murphy at Irish Writers Online Aosdána short biography doollee.com listing of Tom Murphy's works written for the...
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  • at the University of Toronto in October 2010. 2020: Elected member of Aosdána City of Bohane (2011) Beatlebone (2015) Night Boat to Tangier (2019) The...
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  • Carlo Gébler (category Aosdána members)
    short stories, plays, historical works and memoirs. He is a member of Aosdána. Gébler was born in Dublin, the elder son of the Irish writers Ernest Gébler...
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    president confers the title of Saoi on those so elected by the membership of Aosdána. The president is patron to several charities in Ireland. The president...
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  • Ernest Gébler (category Aosdána members)
    Ernie Gebler, was an Irish writer of Czech origin. He was a member of Aosdána. Gébler was born in Dublin, one of the five children of Adolf (or Adolphe)...
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  • Mary Lavin (category Aosdána members)
    the members of Aosdána elected Lavin - now retired - Saoi for achieving "singular and sustained distinction" in literature. Aosdána is an affiliation...
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    Roger Doyle (category Aosdána members)
    torc around his neck. This is the highest honour of Aosdána that can be bestowed by fellow Aosdána members. No more than seven living members can be so...
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  • Patrick Pye (category Aosdána members)
    But I think the thing about Aosdána, is that it saved some people's lives'. Patrick Pye's website Biographical note at Aosdána McAvera B. "Patrick Pye, Life...
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    Munnelly, director of the Arts Council in his capacity as registrar of Aosdána, writing to Bord Fáilte (the National Tourism Development) at the time...
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    – Novelist and member of Aosdána. Born 1955. Eugene McCabe – Playwright, novelist and screenwriter, also a member of Aosdána. Born 1930, lives in Clones...
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    between the Free State and Northern Ireland. The executive of arts body Aosdána rejected a 1989 proposal by Aloys Fleischmann to campaign for a change...
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  • Brian King (sculptor) (category Aosdána members)
    to working with resin without proper protection. He died in 2017. "Aosdána". aosdana.artscouncil.ie. A New History of Ireland Volume VII: Ireland, 1921-84...
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  • "Dublin: One City One Book". dublinonecityonebook.ie. "Aosdana - Members - Dwyer Hickey". aosdana.artscouncil.ie. "Christine Dwyer Hickey: my influences...
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  • Bernard MacLaverty (category Aosdána members)
    2018 He is a member of Aosdána, the Irish arts academy. Novels portal List of Northern Irish writers List of members of Aosdána The Dawning "Biography"...
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  • Eurovision winner 1994 Michael Holohan – composer, member and former chair of Aosdána. James Joyce – writer who briefly attended the school; the school is mentioned...
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    on 5 March 2017. Retrieved 14 December 2016. "New Aosdána members gather at Arts Council". Aosdána. Retrieved 11 December 2023. Wikiquote has quotations...
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