Born in Co. Leitrim, Ita Daly is very much a voice of her time. Her Hennessy Literary Award winning stories The Lady with the Red Shoes and Virginibus Puerisque were highly praised by Alan Sillitoe and Brian Friel, and another of her stories, Compassion, won the last Irish Times Short Story Competition. She writes with controlled passion about women at odds: with boyfriends, lovers, husbands, marriage itself; with youth and its memories; with custom and convention; and with their own nature as women and Irishwomen.
Born in Co. Leitrim, Ita Daly is very much a voice of her time. Her Hennessy Literary Award winning stories The Lady with the Red Shoes and Virginibus Puerisque were highly praised by Alan Sillitoe and Brian Friel, and another of her stories, Compassion, won the last Irish Times Short Story Competition. She writes with controlled passion about women at odds: with boyfriends, lovers, husbands, marriage itself; with youth and its memories; with custom and convention; and with their own nature as women and Irishwomen.