Scott De Buitléir is an Irish writer and poet, born in London and raised in Dublin. He studied Celtic languages at University College Dublin, focusing on Modern Irish and Welsh, and pursued a Master’s degree in Communications & Writing in Irish, specialising in journalism.
He started his career in broadcasting and journalism at the age of 17, working for local Dublin radio stations like Spin 103.8, as well as national broadcasters in RTÉ, TG4, NewsTalk, and BBC Northern Ireland, before moving into digital marketing and communications. Throughout this time, his writing projects remained active, being featured in Irish-language anthologies, newspapers, and magazines. From 2008 to 2015, Scott was founder and editor-at-large of EILE Magazine, an LGBT news and cultural digital publication.
Scott has also appeared at literary festivals, including IMRAM in Dublin, the Cúirt Literary Festival in Galway, and Seachdain na Gàidhlig (World Gaelic Week) in Edinburgh. After moving to England in 2015, Scott founded the Nottingham Writers Collective, a literary group for those based in the East Midlands region. During this time, the majority of poetry featured in his début collection, Fás | Growth, was written. Although Scott returned to Ireland in 2017, the Collective remained active after his departure until 2020.
In the years that followed, he published two works of non-fiction and a novella in English, and a second bilingual poetry collection. All publications were released by MKB Publishing, a venture between Scott and his mother and editor, Marian Kelly Butler.
Today, Scott lives in Cork City, where he is currently working on a novel in Irish. He loves to travel and is a self-proclaimed Danophile, having taught himself Danish and regularly travelling to Copenhagen.
Bibliography
- Fás | Growth, poetry (2017)
- The Irish Outlander, non-fiction (2018)
- Yesterdates, non-fiction (2019)
- Forgiving Jake, fiction (2020)
- Elysium // Párthas, poetry (2021)
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