Publications & Awards
Publications & Awards
Photo by Anna King
Awards
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.
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.
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.
2019: Successful funding for Culture Night. Anna organised an event at Katie’s Claddagh Cottage, Galway.
Stories, Songs and Music: From Inchagoill Island to Galway Bay. In collaboration with Micheal O’Cinneide from Corrib Beo. Music & Song by Don Stiffe, Aine Maire Nic Aodh, Gerry Hanley & Joe Clancy. Percussive Dance by Aneta Dortová. Special Guest: Author Ultan Macken.
By Film-Maker Paul Murphy & Anna King. Filmed on a mobile phone, as part of an award by Galway County Council & Creative Ireland.
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.
2018. Successful Culture Night Funding Anna organised an event at Katie’s Claddagh Cottage, Galway:
‘Cóitheach’ - Sound Installation & Presentation, by Selma Makela & Noah Rose at Katie’s Claddagh Cottage, Galway. Cóitheach - a sudden gust of wind, which comes out of nowhere, particularly noted along the cliffs. This work was originally made during the artists joint residency in Belmullet, North Mayo, as part of ‘Tír Sáile’ 2017. This unique installation was an exploration of the oral transmission of meteorological knowledge and language in Irish coastal areas. The artists work explored how common words and local knowledge of the sea and weather are falling into disuse and changing.
2018: Successful Galway County Council Cultural Heritage Award. Project: Historical Landscapes in Modern Rural Ireland: Re-imagining The Visiting House. This work was in collaboration with Annaghdown community.
2017: Successful Culture Night Award. Anna organised an event at Katie’s Claddagh Cottage, Galway: Back West Music. See photo below.
Back West Music. Photo by Anna King
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).
Co-produced and 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.
2000 - 2008 Journalist / Columnist
Freelance journalist for national and local newspapers in Ireland (Irish Times, Galway Voice, Galway City & Connacht Tribune, Galway NOW Magazine, as well as a weekly full-page health column in the Galway Independent from 2003-2007).
• Ghost-writer for a health column in a local newspaper for 3-years.
Selection of most popular articles:
Turn Despair into Triumph
Turn despair into triumph with attitude. More and more athletes are using sport psychologists to help them use mind over body to realise their winning ambitions. Reports Anna King.
Finding the upsides to the downturn.
Finding up sides to the downturn. The feelings of failure associated with the recession can be as damaging as its material consequences. But fragile confidence can be restored, three experts tells Anna King.
Gluten intolerance may play a role in mental illness
Gluten intolerance may play role in certain mental illness. Schizophrenia is a little understood illness, however, ground-breaking work suggests there may be a dietary link, writes Anna King.
SANCTUARY FOR THE SENSES, by Anna King: CONNACHT TRIBUNE, JUNE 29TH 2018
