Áine Hensey is a radio broadcaster and producer of Irish music programmes, as well as an Irish historian.

Biography

Áine Hensey was born in

Blackrock, Dublin Blackrock () is an affluent suburb of Dublin, Republic of Ireland, Ireland, northwest of Dún Laoghaire. It is named after the local geological rock formation to be found in the area of Blackrock Park. In the late 18th century, the Blackrock Ro ...

to Brenden Hensey and Maura Hickey. She is one of five children. Hensey worked in public relations for many years as well as arts administration. She worked for festivals including Slógadh, Éigse Mrs Crotty, Oidhreacht an Chláir, and Consairtín. She is on the selection panel for the

Gradam Ceoil TG4 TG4's Gradam Ceoil was set up in 1998 with the purpose of recognising the various musicians and organisations who are significant in the creation of Irish Traditional music and in developing both the music and other musicians in Ireland and arou ...

awards. She is the chairman of

Gael-Linn Gael Linn () is a non-profit and non-governmental organisation focused on the promotion of the Irish language and the arts. The organisation's funding includes government and lottery sources. History Gael Linn was founded in May 1953, followin ...

. From the 70s Hensey worked in broadcasting. She started with the national broadcaster

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. She started with Radio 2 and also worked with Radio 1 and Clare FM. In 1995 Hensey moved to Raidió na Gaeltachta. Hensey is the producer of ''Heather Breeze'', ''the Mist-Covered Mountain'', ''Béal Maidine'', ''An Ghaoth Aniar'', ''the Late Session'', and ''An Ghealach Ghorm'' as well as sports programmes, current affairs, and history shows. Hensey studied early modern history with

Maynooth University Maynooth University (MU) (), is a constituent university of the National University of Ireland in Maynooth, County Kildare, Ireland. Maynooth University was formerly known as National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUIM; ). It was Ireland ...

and got a PhD in 2012.

References and sources

Living people Irish radio presenters Irish women radio presenters 21st-century Irish historians Irish women historians People from Blackrock, Dublin Alumni of Maynooth University Irish radio producers Year of birth missing (living people) Women radio producers Broadcasters from County Dublin {{Ireland-bio-stub