Cathal Ó Searcaigh was born in Donegal and lives at the foot of Mount Errigal. His collections of poetry include Homecoming/An Bealach ‘na Bhaile (Cló Iar-Chonnachta, 1993); Na Buachaillí Bána (Lagan Press, 1995); An Tnúth leis an tSolas (Cló Iar-Chonnachta, 2001), for which he received 2001 The Irish Times Irish Literature Prize for the Irish language; and Gúru i gClúidíní (Cló Iar-Chonnachta, 2006).
