Catherine Foley
| Date of Birth: | 10 May 1959 |
| Address: | Ring, County Waterford |
Catherine Foley is a full-time writer and a former staff journalist with The Irish Times. Her short story ‘Secret Letter Writers’ was included in the short story collection, Irish Girls are Back in Town, which was published by TownHouse Press in 2004. She is a regular contributor to the iconic Sunday Miscellany radio programme on RTÉ Radio 1, and subsequent selected anthologies published by New Island, which include September Sundays (2013); RTÉ Sunday Miscellany a selection from 2008-2011 (2011) and RTÉ Sunday Miscellany a selection from 2004-2006 (2006). Her two Irish-language novellas, An Cailín Rua and Sorcha sa Ghailearaí, won first and second prizes at the Oireachtas Literary Awards in 2003 and 2002 respectively, and were subsequently published by COMHAR. Her novella, Samhradh an Chéasta, was published in 2011, again with LeabhairCOMHAR She won an Oireachtas Literary First Prize Award 2016 for a collection of radio and newspaper columns entitled Cuisle an Chósta. She has scripted, presented and co-produced documentaries with her sister RoseAnn Foley, including programmes about the writer Molly Keane, the singer Tom Clancy and the journalist and satirist Donal Foley. She conducted a televised public interview with poet Liam Ó Muirthile as part of the Irish-language arts festival, IMRAM, in Dublin in 2010. In 2003, she was writer-in-residence in Scoil San Nioclás in Ring, Co Waterford. Source: Commons
