Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin. Courtesy Munster Literature Centre.
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin (born 28 November 1942) is an Irish poet and academic.
Life[]
Youth and education[]
Ní Chuilleanáin was born in Cork, Munster, Ireland, the daughter of Eilís Dillon and Professor Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin.
She was educated at University College Cork and The University of Oxford.
Career[]
She lives in Dublin with her husband Macdara Woods; they have a son, Niall.
She is a fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, where she was associate professor of English Literature specialising in the Renaissance; she retired in 2011. She is a founder of the literary magazine Cyphers.
Writing[]
Her broad academic interests (notably her specialism in Renaissance literature and her interest in translation) are reflected in her poetry.
Recognition[]
Her debut collection won the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award in 1973.
In 2010 The Sun-Fish was the winner of the Canadian-based International Griffin Poetry Prize,[1] and was shortlisted for the Poetry Now Award.
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- Acts and Monuments, Dublin: The Gallery Press, 1972.
- Site of Ambush. Dublin: Gallery Press, 1975.
- The Second Voyage. Dublin: Gallery Press / Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Bloodaxe, 1986; Winston-Salem, NC: Wake Forest University Press, 1977.
- 1981: The Rose Geranium. Dublin: The Gallery Press, 1981.
- The Magdalene Sermon. Oldcastle, Ireland: Gallery Press, 1989.
- The Maddalene Sermon, and earlier poems. Winston-Salem, NC: Wake Forest University Press, 1991.
- The Brazen Serpent, Oldcastle, Ireland: Gallery Press, 1994; Winston-Salem, NC: Wake Forest University Press, 1995.
- The Girl Who Married the Reindeer'., Oldcastle, Ireland: Gallery Press, 2001; Winston-Salem, NC: Wake Forest University Press, 2002.
- Selected Poems. London: Faber / Oldcastle, Ireland: Gallery Press, 2008; Winston-Salem, NC: Wake Forest University Press, 2009.
- The Sun-Fish. Oldcastle, Ireland: Gallery Press, 2009; Winston-Salem, NC: Wake Forest University Press, 2010.
Non-fiction[]
- The Wilde Legacy. Dublin & Portland, OR: Four Courts Press, 2003.
Translated[]
- Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, The Water Horse: Poems in Irish with Translations into English (translated by Medbh McGuckian and Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin), Oldcastle, Ireland: The Gallery Press, 1999; Winston Salem, NC: Wake Forest University Press, 2000
- Michelle Ranchetti, Verbale (translated by Ní Chuilleanáin & others). Dublin: Instituto Italiano di Cultura, 2005.[2]
- Ileana Malancioiu, After the Raising of Lazarus: Poems translated from the Romanian Cork, Ireland: Southword Editions, 2005.
Edited[]
- Irish Women: Image and achievement: Women in Irish culture from earliest times. Dublin: Arlen House, 1985.
- Joseph Campbell, As I Was among the Captives: Prison diary, 1922-1923. Cork, Ireland: Cork University Press, 2001.
- Translation and Censorship: Patterns of communication and interference (edited with Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin & David Parrish). Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2009.
- Heresy and Orthodoxy in Early English Literature, 1350-1680 (edited with John Flood). Dublin & Portland, OR: Four Courts Press, 2010.
- Translation: Right or wrong (edited with Susana Bayo Belenguer). Dublin & Portland, OR: Four Courts Press, 2013.
Anthologized[]
- 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).[3]
'Curtain' Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[4]
See also[]
References[]
Notes[]
- ↑ Web page titled "Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin", Wake Forest University Press. Web, May 3, 2008
- ↑ Web page titled "Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin" at Poetry International website, accessed May 3, 2008
- ↑ Irish University Review: A journal of Irish studies. Special Issue: Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin(edited by Anne Fogarty) 37:1 (Dublin: 2007).
- ↑ Search results = au: Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Dec. 27, 2014.
External links[]
- Poems
- Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin (Ireland, 1942 at Poetry International (profile & 7 poems)
- Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin b. 1942 at the Poetry Foundation
- Audio / video
';Books
- Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin at Amazon.com
- About
- Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Irish Poet.
- Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin at Wake Forest University Press.
- Griffin Poetry Prize biography
- Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin at Trinity College, Dublin
- The Griffin Poetry Prize Questionnaire with Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin in the National Post, 2010
- The Sun-Fish by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin reviewed in The Guardian.
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