Awards and Publications
Eilish's debut middle grade novel in verse, Fia and the Last Snow Deer was the winner of the An Post Book Award in the Senior Children's category, 2024 and was shortlisted for the overall An Post Irish Book of the Year.
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Fia and the Last Snow Deer has been shortlisted for the KPMG Children's Books Ireland Awards, 2025.
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In 2025, Eilish was awarded a place on the Live Literature Mentorship Programme with Laureate na NÓg Patricia Forde through the Irish Arts Council, Laureate na NÓg and Children's Books Ireland
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Eilish's poetry has been published in Crannog Literary Magazine, Three Drops From a Cauldron, The Ogham Stone and Cailleach literary journals and in the anthology Writing Home; The ‘New Irish’ Poets, published by Dedalus Press.
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In 2021, Eilish was awarded a Round One Literary Bursary from The Arts Council in Ireland.
In summer 2020 she won second place in the Ken Saro-Wiwa Poetry Competition.
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Eilish was awarded a place on the Words Ireland Mentoring Programme for young adult and children’s literature in 2020 with Carnegie Medal winner and verse novelist Sarah Crossan.
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In 2018, Eilish's first (unpublished) children’s novel was shortlisted for the Mslexia Children’s Novel Award in 2018.
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She received a master’s degree in early medieval Irish history and literature in 2002 and a doctorate in medieval English literature in 2006 from the National University of Ireland, Maynooth.
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Fia and The Last Snow Deer is published by Puffin Books, UK.
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Eilish's second middle grade novel in verse will be released in September, 2025
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Eilish is represented by Joanna Moult at Skylark Literary agency. She lives in County Wicklow.
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Three Drops
From
A Cauldron
