Bua ag Caitríona Lane, Conamara, i gComórtas Filíochta Séamus Ó Cinnéide 2026

Bua ag Caitríona Lane, Conamara, i gComórtas Filíochta Séamus Ó Cinnéide 2026

Tá Ionad Scríbhneoirí Luimnigh fíor-bhródúil as Caitríona Lane a fhógairt mar bhuaiteoir Chomórtas Filíochta Séamus Ó Cinnéide na bliana seo, comórtas a dhéanann ceiliúradh ar an nua-fhilíocht sa Gaeilge. Roghnaíodh a dán, “Duan na fuiseoige”, as beagnach 50 iontráil (a tháinig isteach ó thrí mhór-roinn éagsúla timpeall na cruinne). B’é an file agus an t-eagarthóir Tomás Ó Coileáin an breitheamh arís i mbliana.

Galway-based Poet Caitríona Lane Triumphs in Séamus Ó Cinnéide Poetry Competition 2026

The Limerick Writers’ Centre proudly announces Caitríona Lane as the winner of this year’s Séamus Ó Cinnéide Poetry Competition, celebrating excellence in Irish language poetry. Her winning poem, “Duan na fuiseoige”, has been selected from almost 50 entries (spanning three different continents around the globe) by poet and editor Tomás Ó Coileáin.

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Caitríona Lane is a Dublin born , Connemara based bilingual poet. A Poetry Ireland Introductions Series Céadlínte Awardee, she was shortlisted by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin for the 2023 Eavan Boland Emerging Poet Award . Since then she has won several Irish Language Poetry Prizes including:

2026 Limerick Writers Centre Séamus Ó Cinnéide Award,

2025 Listowel Writers Week Foras na Gaeilge Award,

2024 An Fiach Dubh Fingal Poetry Festival,

2024 Ballybunion Arts Festival,

2024 Limerick Writers Centre Best Gaeilge Poem in the Desmond O Grady Competition

2022 Manchester Irish Language Poetry Prize,

2021 Kinsale Words by Water,

She has been placed twice in Frances Browne Literature Festival, Saolta Arts Poems for Patience and elsewhere. She was the 2025 winner of the Little Fires of Brigid Competition: Drawn to the Light Press.

Caitríona’s work in both Gaeilge and English is widely published in journals and anthologies in Ireland and the U.S.

She has completed her debut bilingual collection.

She is the recipient of a Cill Rialaig Residency from Irish Writers Centre,

A Birr Writers Residency Awardee from Offaly Arts and a Ealaín na Gaeltachta Residency at Interface Inagh.

Her work has been podcasted and broadcast on national and local radio.

She has performed her work in the U.S and U.K and was featured poet at the United Arts Club, Dublin in 2025.

Her Gaeilge poetry was on public display in Brigit’s Garden , Rosscahil 2025.

Her English poetry was commended in the Southword Editor’s Choice Award and will appear in 2026.

Her commissioned poem for the Addergoole 14 will appear in Salmon Poetry’s Titanic Anthology ” Unsinkable ” 2026.