Ita Daly
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| Intro | Novelist | |||
| Places | Ireland | |||
| is | Writer Children's writer | |||
| Work field | Literature | |||
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| Birth | 1945, County Leitrim, Connacht, Ireland | |||
| Age | 80 years | |||
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Biography
Ita Daly (born 1945) is an Irish author of five novels for adults, two for children and a collection of short stories.
Biography
Ita Daly was born in 1945 in Drumshanbo, County Leitrim, Ireland. She was the daughter of a civil servant. She was educated in the St Louis High School, Rathmines, Dublin and then went on to study English and Spanish at University College Dublin. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts and Higher Diploma in Education. She worked as a teacher for eleven years at a secondary school in Dublin.
Daly was married to writer David Marcus and in 2016 published a memoir of their life together, I'll Drop You a Line: A Life With David Marcus. She has one daughter. She left teaching when her daughter was born. She lives in Dublin.
She is a member of Aosdána.
Awards
- In both 1972 and 1976 she was awarded the Hennessy Literary Award
- In 1975 she won the short story contest in The Irish Times