Eimear Chaomhánach

grew up in a beekeeping household in Dublin. As an undergraduate and postgraduate of Irish Folklore in University College Dublin, she spent many years researching the lore of bees and beekeeping in Irish and international folk traditions. This work is a culmination of academic and field research, alongside personal experiences as a beekeeper’s daughter, shadowing her father’s beekeeping practice for more than forty years.

Eimear has worked in the arts and heritage sectors in Ireland for over twenty years and is currently a director on the board of The Stinging Fly literary magazine.