An Scéaltacht le Máire Zepf agus Áine Ní Ghlinn

Welcome to the ‘Scéaltacht’ - a very special place, bursting with stories and fun, warmth and creativity. In the ‘Scéaltacht’, you will meet Laureate na nÓg, Áine Ní Ghlinn and author Máire Zepf as they celebrate Irish language books and reading for children. This family event will be entirely in Irish.  

About Áine Ní Ghlinn

Áine Ní Ghlinn is a poet and children’s writer. She has written more than 30 books to date and is Ireland’s Laureate na nÓg/Children’s Literature Laureate 2020 – 2023. She loves spending time with young people helping them to write their own poems and stories.

About Máire Zepf

Myra Zepf was the first Children’s Writing Fellow forthe North of Ireland, based at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at Queen's University Belfast. The Co. Down author has written 13 books for children, including picture books, historical fiction and the first verse novel in Irish (Nóinín, Cois Life, 2019). Together with illustrator Andrew Whitson, she has created a picture book series based on the character ‘Rita’ (An tSnáthaid Mhór). Her picture book with illustrator Tarsila Kruse Ná Gabh ar Scoil! (Futa Fata, 2015) has been translated into 7 different languages, including English as Don’t Go to School! (Futa Fata, 2018) and has been awarded an IBBY Honour Award and a Children’s Book Award from the Literacy Association of Ireland. Máire is a two-time winner of the Oireachtas Award for fiction for Lá Leis na Lochlannaigh and Nóinín. Máire has also a translated books to Irish for Oliver Jeffers, (Anseo Atá Muid, Futa Fata, 2018), Malachy Doyle (Muireann agus an Fharraige Fhiáin, An tSnáthaid Mhór, 2018) and Torben Kuhlmann (Lindbergh: Scéal Luchóige a d’Eitil, Futa Fata, 2017). Máire is on a sworn mission to inspire children to write their own stories.