Ann Leahy Livres

Ann Leahy is a Patrick Kavanagh award-winner whose debut collection, The Woman who Lived her Life Backwards, was published by Arlen House in 2008. Her poems have been published in magazines and anthologies in Ireland and internationally. Individual poems from the collection have won national literary competitions such as the Poetry on the Wall Competition and the Clogh Writers' Award and have been placed in many more competitions in Ireland and UK such as the Gerard Manley Hopkins and The UK New Writer awards.

Establishing a critical and interdisciplinary dialogue, this text engages with the typically disparate fields of social gerontology and disability studies. It investigates the experiences of two groups rarely considered together in research - people ageing with long-term disability and people first experiencing disability with ageing.