Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin (born 1942) is an Irish poet born in Cork (city).

Life

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin is the daughter of Eilís Dillon and Professor Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin. She was educated at University College Cork and The University of Oxford. She lives in Dublin with her husband Macdara Woods and their son Niall. She is a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin where she is an associate professor of English Literature specialising in the Renaissance. She is a founder of the literary magazine Cyphers.

Publications

Poetry Collections:

• Acts and Monuments (Dublin: The Gallery Press, 1972)
• Site of Ambush (Dublin: The Gallery Press, 1975)
• The Second Voyage (Winston Salem, NC: Wake Forest University Press, 1977, 1991)
• The Rose Geranium (Dublin: The Gallery Press, 1981)
• The Second Voyage (Dublin: The Gallery Press; Newcastle Upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books, 1986)
• The Magdalene Sermon (Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, 1989)
• The Brazen Serpent (Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, 1994; Winston Salem, NC: Wake Forest University Press, 1995)
• The Girl Who Married the Reindeer (Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, 2001; Winston Salem, NC: Wake Forest University Press, 2002)

Translations:

• The Water Horse: Poems in Irish by Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill with Translations into English by Medbh McGuckian and Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin (Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, 1999; Winston Salem, NC: Wake Forest University Press, 2001)
• After the Raising of Lazarus: Poems Translated from the Romanian by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin. (Cork Southword Editions, 2005)

In addition to the above, Ní Chuilleanáin's poetry is widely anthologised. A list of her academic writing and of criticism written about her work can be found in Fogarty ed. (2007).

Sources

Anne Fogarty ed. Irish University Review: A Journal of Irish Studies. Special Issue: Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin Vol. 37, no. 1 (Dublin, 2007)