Eithne Hand
| Address: | Sligo |
Eithne Hand is a writer and radio producer from Greystones, Co.Wicklow. Tickle is her second collection of poetry published by Salmon Poetry. Her first collection, Fox Trousers, was published in 2020. Eithne’s work has been published in Southword, Crannóg, The Irish Times, The Moth, and Poetry Ireland Review. She has written and directed three radio plays broadcast on RTÉ Radio 1, and her documentary, Voicejazz, won a Prix Italia award for Best Work on Music. She was Head of RTÉ Radio 1 from 2003 to 2006. She produced Gay Byrne’s Sunday Jazz programme for the final four years of the show. In theatre, she produced the one man shows The Man In The Woman’s Shoes and I Hear You and Rejoice, written and performed by Mikel Murfi. From 2014 to 2017 Eithne was the curator of the First Thought strand of the Galway International Arts Festival. She has been the participating poet in Songlines – a Festival in a Van project bringing together artists and people living with dementia and cognitive impairment. She is also a freelance radio drama director for Drama on One (RTÉ Radio 1). She divides her time between Greystones and Ballinafad, County Sligo.
