Siobhán Ní Shúilleabháin
Siobhán Ní Shúilleabháin, (31 August 1928 – 21 May 2013), was an Irish dramatist and writer. Biography. Siobhán Ní Shúilleabháin was born in Ballyferriter, County Kerry. She was one of six children of Séamus Ó Súilleabháin and Máire Feiritéar. Her brother was author Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin. John B. Keane called her the "best dramatist writing in Ireland". Ní Shúilleabháin was the winner of the Irish Life award for plays in 1974, and of thirty Oireachtas literary awards. Her novel "Aistriú" (2004) led Pól Ó Muirí to write, "[It] is a work of great compassion and poignancy and Ní  Shúilleabháin tells the story fluently. Her use of dialogue is particularly impressive, giving the reader the immediate sense of what is said but, magically, also conveying a second meaning behind the spoken one. It is the sound of speech and the whisper of a sigh that adds so much to a wonderful novel." Her husband, academic Patrick Leo Henry, died in 2011. Ní Shúilleabháin died in Galway on 21 May 2013, survived by her six children.