Áine Hensey is a radio broadcaster and producer of Irish music programmes, as well as an Irish historian.

Biography

Áine Hensey was born in

Blackrock, Dublin Blackrock () is a suburb of Dublin, Ireland, northwest of Dún Laoghaire. Location and access Blackrock covers a large but not precisely defined area, rising from sea level on the coast to at White's Cross on the N11 national primary road. ...

to Brenden Hensey and Maura Hickey. She is one of five children. Hensey worked in public relations for many years as well as arts administration. She worked for festivals including Slógadh, Éigse Mrs Crotty, Oidhreacht an Chláir, and Consairtín. She is on the selection panel for the

Gradam Ceoil TG4 TG4's Gradam Ceoil was set up in 1998 with the purpose of recognising the various musicians and organisations who are significant in the creation of Irish Traditional music and in developing both the music and other musicians in Ireland and arou ...

awards. She is the chairman of Gael-Linn. From the 70s Hensey worked in broadcasting. She started with the national broadcaster

RTÉ (RTÉ) (; Irish language, Irish for "Radio & Television of Ireland") is the Public broadcaster, national broadcaster of Republic of Ireland, Ireland headquartered in Dublin. It both produces and broadcasts programmes on RTÉ Television, telev ...

. She started with Radio 2 and also worked with Radio 1 and Clare FM. In 1995 Hensey moved to Raidió na Gaeltachta. Hensey is the producer of ''Heather Breeze'', ''the Mist-Covered Mountain'', ''Béal Maidine'', ''An Ghaoth Aniar'', ''the Late Session'', and ''An Ghealach Ghorm'' as well as sports programmes, current affairs, and history shows. Hensey studied early modern history with

Maynooth University The National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUIM; ga, Ollscoil na hÉireann Mhá Nuad), commonly known as Maynooth University (MU), is a constituent university of the National University of Ireland in Maynooth, County Kildare, Ireland. It ...

and got a PhD in 2012.

References and sources

Living people Irish radio presenters Irish women radio presenters Irish historians Women historians People from Blackrock, Dublin Alumni of Maynooth University Irish radio producers Year of birth missing (living people) Women radio producers {{Ireland-bio-stub