Honours and Awards

  • 2015 Gold Medal and Honorary Patronage of the Philosophical Society, Trinity College Dublin

  • 2014 Irish Tatler Woman of the Year Award in the Arts

  • 2014 Residency at the Irish Cultural Centre, Paris

  • 2013 Trinity College Dublin Alumni Award

  • 2013 Children’s Books Ireland Award for Services to Children’s Literature

  • 2012 IBBY Honour for Translation (Over the Wall)

  • 2011 CBI Honour for Fiction (Maitríóisce)

  • 2010 Appointed Ireland’s first Laureate for Children’s Literature

  • 2008 Oireachtas prize (Dialann Sár-Rúnda Amy Ní Chonchúir)

  • 2008 IBBY Honour for Fiction (Something Invisible)

  • 2007 Bisto Honour (Something Invisible)

  • 2007 White Raven (Kate)

  • 2000 IBBY Honour for Fiction (The Moon King)

  • 1999 Bisto Merit (The Moon King)

  • 1998 Bisto Merit (Four Kids, Three Cats, Two Cows, One Witch (Maybe))

  • 1998 White Raven with special mention (Four Kids, Three Cats, Two Cows, One Witch (Maybe))

  • 1997 Bisto Book of the Year (Sisters – No Way!)

  • 1995 White Raven (No Peace for Amelia)