Daithí Ó Muirí is a writer of fiction in the

Irish language Irish ( Standard Irish: ), also known as Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Insular Celtic branch of the Celtic language family, which is a part of the Indo-European language family. Irish is indigenous to the island of Ireland and was ...

. He was born in

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but now lives in the Cois Fharraige district of

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. Ó Muirí has published four collections of short stories and a longer work called ''Ré'' (Epoch). He was granted a bursary of 10,000 euros by the

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to aid him in his literary work. His collection ''Cogaí'' (Wars) won an important literary prize in 2001 in the

Cló Iar-Chonnacht Cló Iar-Chonnacht (CIC; ; "West Connacht Press") is an Irish language publishing company founded in 1985 by writer Micheál Ó Conghaile, a native speaker of Irish from Inis Treabhair in Connemara. He set the company up while still a student. ...

Literary Award Competition. The adjudicators referred to the savagery and vitality of the writing. His work has been praised for its assured and engaging style and its surrealistic atmosphere.

Works

* ''Seacht Lá na Díleann''.

Teo 2013. * ''Ré''. Cló Iar-Chonnacht Teo 2012. * ''Ceolta''. Cló Iar-Chonnacht Teo 2006. * ''Cogaí''. Cló Iar-Chonnacht Teo 2002. * ''Uaigheanna agus Scéalta Eile''. Cló Iar-Chonnacht Teo 2002.

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