Ita Daly

Ita Daly (born 1945) is an Irish author of five novels for adults, two for children and a collection of short stories.

Ita Daly
Born1945
County Leitrim, Ireland
OccupationWriter
NationalityIrish
Alma materUniversity College Dublin
SpouseDavid Marcus
Children1

Biography

Ita Daly was born in 1945 in Drumshanbo, County Leitrim, Ireland. She was the daughter of a civil servant. She was educated in the St Louis High School, Rathmines, Dublin and then went on to study English and Spanish at University College Dublin. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts and Higher Diploma in Education. She worked as a teacher for eleven years at a secondary school in Dublin.

Daly was married to writer David Marcus and in 2016 published a memoir of their life together, I'll Drop You a Line: A Life With David Marcus. She has one daughter. She left teaching when her daughter was born. She lives in Dublin.

She is a member of Aosdána.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]

Awards
  • In both 1972 and 1976 she was awarded the Hennessy Literary Award
  • In 1975 she won the short story contest in The Irish Times

Bibliography
  • The Lady with the Red Shoes (1980)
  • Ellen (1986)
  • A Singular Attraction (1987)
  • Candy on the Dart (1989)
  • Candy and Sharon Olé (1991)
  • Dangerous Fictions (1991)
  • All Fall Down (1992)
  • Unholy ghosts (2000)
  • Irish Myths & Legends (2000)
  • We Were Happy There: A Hundred Years of St Louis High School Rathmines (2014)
  • I'll Drop You a Line: A Life With David Marcus (2016)
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References
  1. "Aosdána".
  2. "Munsterlit Biography".
  3. "Irish Writers Online".
  4. "Agency Biography".
  5. "Biography on Ricorso".
  6. Alexander G. Gonzalez (2006). Irish Women Writers: An A-to-Z Guide. Greenwood Publishing Group.
  7. "Dublin City Library".


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