{{short description|Irish writer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2022}} {{Use Hiberno-English|date=February 2022}} {{Infobox writer | name = Angela Bourke | image = | imagesize = | caption = | pseudonym = Angela Bourke, Angela Partridge | birth_date = 1952 | birth_place = Dublin, Ireland | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Writer, Lecturer, Oral historian | nationality = Irish | period = | genre = Women in history, women in folklore | subject = Irish language | movement = | magnum_opus = | influences = | influenced = | website = | footnotes = }} '''Angela Bourke''' (former married name '''Partridge''') (1952) is an Irish author, historian and academic who focuses on Irish oral tradition and literature in her books, lectures, and broadcasting.
==Biography== Bourke is a Dublin-born writer, oral historian and academic with an interest in the voice of women in folklore. Educated in University College Dublin with an MA in Celtic Studies she travelled to Université de Bretagne Occidentale in 1974.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url = http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/bic1/BiographiesDetailsPage/BiographiesDetailsWindow?failOverType=&query=&prodId=BIC1&windowstate=normal&contentModules=&display-query=&mode=view&displayGroupName=Biographies&limiter=&currPage=&disableHighlighting=false&displayGroups=&sortBy=&search_within_results=&p=BIC1&action=e&catId=&activityType=&scanId=&documentId=GALE%7CH1000145185&source=Bookmark&u=mlin_n_umass&jsid=44481d976710da97603189660ff03d8d|title = Contemporary Authors Online|date = 2002|access-date = 19 February 2016|website = Biography in Context|publisher = Gale|last = |first = }}</ref> Bourke completed her doctorate in women's religious poetry in Irish folklore, also from University College Dublin.<ref name=":0" /> In the 1970s Bourke collected songs in Carna, Conemara. She was the first holder of Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco) bursary for academic writers, Autumn 2002.<ref name="journal of music">{{cite web | url=https://journalofmusic.com/author/angela-bourke | title=Journal of Music | accessdate=18 February 2016}}</ref> She has travelled widely to other universities in Japan, Europe and the US as a guest and visiting professor, including Harvard University from 1992-93.<ref name=":0" /> She is Professor of Irish-Language Studies and Head of modern Irish in UCD.<ref name="UCD details">{{cite web | url=https://rms.ucd.ie/ufrs/w_rms_cv_show.show_public?user=angela.bourke@ucd.ie | title=UCD position and details | accessdate=18 February 2016 | archive-date=22 December 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222063117/https://rms.ucd.ie/ufrs/w_rms_cv_show.show_public?user=angela.bourke@ucd.ie | url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="Online Biography">{{cite web | url=http://www.ricorso.net/rx/az-data/authors/b/Bourke_A/life.htm | title=Online Biography | accessdate=18 February 2016}}</ref>
Bourke is a member of the Royal Irish Academy.<ref name="RIA">{{cite web | url=https://www.ria.ie/angela-bourke | title=RIA membership | date=19 October 2015 | accessdate=18 February 2016}}</ref><ref name="Visiting Fellows"/><ref name="Éire-Ireland ">{{cite web | url=http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/eire-ireland/v044/44.3-4.contributors.pdf | title=From: Éire-Ireland Volume 44:3&4, Earrach/Samhradh / Fall/Winter 2009 | accessdate=18 February 2016}}</ref><ref name="Historian">{{cite web | url=http://www.thewag.net/interviews/bourkein.htm | title=The Wag Chats with Angela Bourke | first=Daphne | last=Frostchild | work=The Wag | date=1 December 2000 | accessdate=4 February 2022}}</ref>
==Awards== * The Frank O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, 1992<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{cite book | title=Irish Women Writers: An A-to-Z Guide | publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group, 2006 - Literary Criticism - 348 pages | author=Alexander G. Gonzalez}}</ref> * The Irish Times Literature Prize for non-fiction in 2000 and American Conference for Irish Studies James S. Donnelly Prize, 2001 with The Burning of Bridget Cleary: A True Story <ref name="Online Biography"/><ref name="cork short story">{{cite web | url=http://www.corkshortstory.net/bourke_angela.html | title=Cork short story | accessdate=18 February 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160505225935/http://www.corkshortstory.net/bourke_angela.html | archive-date=5 May 2016 | url-status=dead }}</ref>
== Selected works ==
===Folklore studies and biography===
* ''Caoineadh na dTrí Muire: Téama na Páise i bhfílocht bhéil na Gaeilge'' (Baile Átha Cliath: An Clóchomhar Tta, 1983)<ref name="Online Biography"/> * ''The Burning of Bridget Cleary: A True Story'' (London: Pimlico 1999)<ref name="Online Biography"/> * ''Maeve Brennan of the New Yorker'' (London: Jonathan Cape 2004)<ref name="Online Biography"/>
===Fiction===
* ''By Salt Water'' (Dublin: New Island 1996)<ref name="Online Biography"/> * ''“Iníon Rí na Cathrach Deirge”'' (1989) <ref name="Online Biography"/> * ''“Iníon Rí an Oileáin Dhorcha'' (1991)<ref name="Online Biography"/>
===Miscellaneous===
* ''‘Working and Weeping: Women’s Oral Poetry in Irish and Scottish Gaelic Poetry’'', in Women's Studies Working Papers, No. 7 (UCD Women's Studies Forum 1988) * ''Fish stone water: Holy Wells of Ireland'', by Anna Rackard, introduced by Angela Bourke (Cork: Atrium 2001) * ''The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing'', vols iv and v: Irish Women's Writing and Traditions (2002) ed.<ref name="Visiting Fellows">{{cite web | url=http://irishstudies.nd.edu/faculty/visiting-faculty-fellows/angela-bourke/ | title=Visiting Fellows | accessdate=18 February 2016 | archive-date=25 February 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160225131906/http://irishstudies.nd.edu/faculty/visiting-faculty-fellows/angela-bourke/ | url-status=dead }}</ref> * ''‘Adventures with old things’'', in The Dublin Review, 4 (Autumn 2001), pp. 5–13
== References == {{Reflist}}
==Further reading== * [https://www.jstor.org/stable/25505053 Otherworldly Women and Neurotic Fairies: The Cultural Construction of Women in Angela Bourke's Writing; Tudor Balinisteanu; Irish University Review; Vol. 37, No. 2 (Autumn - Winter, 2007), pp. 492-516; Published by: Edinburgh University Press]
== External links == *[http://comhairlebheal.ie/committee.html Folklore council of Ireland] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161011120301/http://comhairlebheal.ie/committee.html |date=11 October 2016 }} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20160811113133/http://www.irishwriters-online.com/bourke-angela/ Irish Writers online Biography] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20160515162040/http://www.irelandliterature.com/author-database/author-holder/show/257 Irish Literature Exchange]
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