Battersby, Eileen

Born in California, Eileen Battersby discovered reading at an early age. After graduating from a BA in English and History at University College Dublin and then an MA on the American writer Thomas Wolfe, she became involved in journalism, initially through sports writing and book reviews. Eileen is an arts journalist with "The Irish Times", where she is also the literary correspondent and has written on all aspect of the arts including classical music, the visual arts, cinema and theatre. She has won the National Arts Journalist of the Year Award four times.