Éilís Ní Dhuibhne (1954- ) is an Irish author and scholar who writes in both English and Irish. She studied English at University College Dublin, where she also did postgraduate studies in Middle English and Old Irish, and completed a Ph.D. in 1982 on oral and written narrative. She published her first short story in 1974, and in 1988, Blood and Water, her first collection of stories, was published. She has since written novels, stories, poetry, plays and television scripts, as well as scholarly articles and literary criticism.

Ní Dhuibhne worked as an assistant keeper, or librarian, in the National Library of Ireland for many years, and she has taught creative writing at a number of institutions including University College Dublin, Trinity College and the Irish Writers’ Centre. She is a member of Aosdána, the academy of Irish writers and artists, has been Ambassador for the Irish Writers’ Center, and she has served as President of the Folklore of Ireland Society (An Cumann Béaloideas Éireann).

Among her books are Midwife to the Fairies: New and Selected Stories (2002), The Dancers Dancing (1999), Hurlamaboc (2006), Aisling, nó Iníon A. (2015), and Twelve Thousand Days. A Memoir of Love and Loss (2018). She published a number of works for children under the pseudonym Elizabeth O’Hara.

Ní Dhuibhne’s work has been translated to Japanese, German, Scots Gaelic and other languages, and her plays have been performed at the Peacock and at the Sam Beckett Centre at Trinity College Dublin. Her short stories have been published in many anthologies. Ní Dhuibhne’s scripts include many for Ros na Rún, the long-running series on Irish language television, TG4, and Glenroe, a popular series on Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ) television from 1983 to 2001.