Noelle Vial
{{Short description|Irish poet (1959–2003)}}
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Noelle Vial (December 25, 1959 – January 19, 2003){{cn|date=January 2024}} was an Irish poet from County Donegal, Ireland. She was the recipient of the Hennessy Literary Award for best emerging poet in 1994. Her debut poetry collection, Promiscuous Winds, was published in 1995.
Early life
Noelle Sharkey was born on 25 December 1959 in Killybegs, County Donegal, Ireland.{{cn|date=January 2024}} Noelle was the recipient of a Pushkin prize for poetry in 1996.{{cn|date=January 2024}} The Pushkin Prizes were established in 1987 by Sacha Hamilton, Duchess of Abercorn, to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the death of her ancestor, Alexander Pushkin. The poetry prize was awarded annually to school aged children.{{cite web |title=ARTS COUNCIL AND THE PUSHKIN PRIZE |url=http://artscouncil-ni.org/news/arts-council-and-the-pushkin-prize |website=Arts Council of Northern Ireland |access-date=2 June 2020}}{{cite news |title=Pushkin opens young minds |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/education/pushkin-opens-young-minds-1.125419 |newspaper=The Irish Times |access-date=2 June 2020}}
Career
Vial wrote poetry and taught creative writing at St Catherine's Vocational School. She was a founding member of the Killybegs writers group. Her first poetry collection, Promiscuous Winds was published in the United States in 1995 by Story Line Press.
Vial was the recipient of the Hennessy Literary Award for best emerging poet in 1994.{{Cite news |title=New Irish Writing – Hennessy Literary Awards: Winners through the decades |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/hennessy-niw/new-irish-writing-hennessy-literary-awards-winners-through-the-decades-1.2076877 |access-date=2024-01-18 |newspaper=The Irish Times |language=en}}
Vial died at her home on 19 January 2003.{{cite web |title=Second Noelle Vial book comes 14 years after her death |url=http://killybegsonline.org/Article_Details.aspx?article_id=3394&tscategory_id=57 |website=Killybegs Online |access-date=2 June 2020}} A number of poems were found among her papers after her death; Vial had been under contract for a new collection of poetry to be published in the U.S. Fourteen years later, the book of poems, The Ungrateful Princess, edited by writer, Liam McGinley, and Vial's son, Derek Vial, was published in 2017.
In 2013, The Donegal Bay and Blue Stacks Festival, supported by The Arts Council and Creative Ireland, established an annual poetry bursary for emerging poets in memory of Vial. The bursary, named the Noelle Vial Tyrone Guthrie Centre Poetry Bursary, provides a week-long stay at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Newbliss, County Monaghan{{cite web |title=Donegal Now - The writing community celebrates the late Noelle Vial |url=https://www.scoop.it/topic/irish-literature/?&tag=Noelle+Vial |website=The Irish Literary Times |access-date=2 June 2020}}
Selected publications
- {{cite book |last1=Vial |first1=Noelle |title=Promiscuous Winds |date=1995 |publisher=Story Line Press |isbn=978-1885266132}}
- {{cite book |last1=Vial |first1=Noelle |title=The Ungrateful Princess |date=2017 |publisher=Five Points Press |isbn=978-1527210264}}
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Category:Writers from County Donegal