Publications, Awards & artist residency

• March - September, 2026. Ballindoon Artist Residency. ARRIVAL Art Exhibiton. Funded by the National Built Heritage Service & Ballaghaderreen Arts Festival.

• April - September, 2026. ‘The Well Gathering” Permanent Public Artwork in collaboration with traditional stone mason Dominic Keogh. Funded by the Rural Regeneration and Development Fund in partnership with Roscommon County Council and Creative Places Ballaghaderreen.

• July - October, 2026. ‘The Lazy Wall’ Participatory Art Project. Funded by Roscommon County Council Creative Ireland Programme and supported by Ballaghaderreen Tidy Towns.

• January - June 2025: The Cherry Blossom Tales, funded by Funded by Roscommon County Council Creative Ireland Programme 2025.

• Nov 2023 - Nov 2024 Creative Places Ballaghaderreen Artist-Research Residency. See details HERE. This project was funded by The Arts Council & Roscommon County Council. This residency included a Creative Story-telling Heritage Exhibition at The Ballaghaderreen Arts Festival, 2024 and an event supported by Heritage Week, which included a contemplative poetry reading by Anna.

• WINNER 2023 - ‘Best in the World' at The Gourmand International Awards in the Lifestyle Category, for ‘Rekindling the Fire’ (written in collaboration with Martin Ruffley & published by Austin Macauley). We also received a prestigious ‘Special Award’ in the Food Culture: Authors Category. There were 100.000 books screened from 230 countries & regions.

• Rekindling the Fire has been featured in the Irish Independent, Times, Examiner, and Connacht Tribune.

• IRISH RESEARCH AWARD:‍ ‍2010 - 2013. Won a 3-year full time, highly prestigious Irish Research Council Scholarship.  National University of Galway.

Exhibitions:

August 2nd, 2026: Edmondstown House ARRIVAL Art Exhibition:

‘Unfolding’ Graphite Drawing on Fabriano Artistico TW Hot Pressed, 300gsm. 1/1

‘Drawing Near’ Graphite Drawing on Fabriano Artistico TW Hot Pressed, 300gsm. 1/1

‘Beyond’ Digital Fine Art Print. Epson Luster Photo Paper Super A3

‘In-Between’ Digital Fine Art Print. Epson Luster Photo Paper Super A3.

‘The Boathouse’ Digital Print. Epson Luster Photo Paper Super A3. 1/1

Watercolour Sketchbook – Work in Progress.

KAVA Courthouse Art Gallery: August 6th - 16th, 2026:

‘Drawing Near’ Graphite Drawing on Fabriano Artistico TW Hot Pressed, 300gsm. 1/1

OTHER:

‘DAWN, River Cong’ Fine Art Print was preselected for the 2026 Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts 196th RHA Annual Exhibition.

August 2025: Ballaghaderreen Arts Festival: Fine Art Prints & Printed Poetry, as part of ‘The Cherry Blossom Tales Event.’

August 2024. ‘In the Delicate Present Moment’ Two Fine Art Prints, exhibited as part of the Ballaghaderreen Community Art Exhibition.

COMMUNITY AWARDS & FUNDING

Artist Award: Galway 2020: The Well Gathering. A Short Film

In association with (& funded by) Galway 2020 European Capital of Culture. Featured April 2021. www.galway2020.ie  See more on the above project - HERE. The short film is no longer available for viewing, but an extract of the video music is below:

In 2020 Anna supported Galway Hooker Sailing Club’s application for a Galway Hooker Restoration Project. This successful award was part of the Western Fisheries Local Action Group (FLAG) / Coastal Community Projects in Galway.

• 2018: Successful Galway County Council Cultural Heritage Department and Creative Ireland Award, to work with Film Maker & Videographer, Paul Murphy on a mobile film-making project. Title: The ‘Lovely Anne’ Hooker Restoration Project.

• Anna has received funding for a number of Culture Night events at Katies Claddagh Cottage, including for an event with Back West Music, in 2017. See photo below.

• 2012 Anna won an award from The Galway Film Centre I.D Film Project to produce a documentary out of one of her intercultural development projects in the East Galway community of Doughiska, Roscam and Ardaun (it was one of four awards out of 200 applicants).

• Project managed ‘Making History’, a community documentary that used the tools of film-making to explore intercultural relationships in diverse social settings. This film was screened in the Town Hall Theatre, Galway, 18th, November 2012, and as part of the Galway Film Centre community screenings at the Galway Film Fleadh, on July 10th, 2013.  Making History was featured in local newspapers.

• 2008 OXYGEN STUDENT MEDIA AWARDS: Nominated for an ethnographic radio documentary.

Publications

2022 Rekindling the Fire: Food and The Journey of Life. Published by Austin Macauley. More info HERE.

2010–2014 Ph.D. Doctorate in Philosophy: Ethnography & Arts-Based Research Methodologies.

Title: An Alternative Gathering: Public Space and Shared Agency in the Lived Experience of Multicultural Ireland. Abstract & Download: University of Galway

Awarded a prestigious Irish Research Scholarship. My doctoral thesis has been downloaded over 1,500 times through the university’s research archive.

2000 - 2010 Journalist / Columnist Freelance journalist and columnist, with work published in The Irish Times, Connacht Tribune, Galway Independent, Galway NOW and other Irish publications.