Éilís Ní Dhuibhne (pronounced [ˈeːlʲiːʃ n̠ʲiː ˈɣɪvʲnʲə]; born 22 February 1954), also known as Eilis Almquist and Elizabeth O'Hara, is an Irish novelist and short story writer who writes both in Irish and English.
[3] She has worked in the Department of Irish Folklore in UCD, and for many years as a curator in the National Library of Ireland.
She is a member of Aosdána[4] since 2004,[5] an ambassador for the Irish Writers' Centre, and President of the Folklore of Ireland Society (An Cumann le Béaloideas Éireann).
Ní Dhuibhne is the Burns Visiting Scholar at Boston College for the fall 2020 semester.
[6] Ní Dhuibhne was married to the Swedish folklorist Bo Almqvist for 30 years until he died suddenly due to a short illness in 2013.