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20/05/2004
New Irish writing awards announced
The Ireland Chair of Poetry Award was presented last night to Alice Lyons by the current holder of the Chair, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill.
The prize will allow Lyons to spend a four-week residency in the Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annaghmakerrig.
Lyons' poems have appeared in numerous journals and she won the Patrick Kavanagh Award with her first collection, 'speck'.
Also announced was a new literature award, the Annie Deeny Memorial Prize by distinguished poet Fleur Adcock.
Annie Deeny was a teacher and mother of six children who, although she wrote, never sought to have her work published.
This perpetual prize is in her memory to encourage someone in a similar situation to write and to publish and provides a two-week residency at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annaghmakerrig plus €250 to cover extra costs.
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