Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
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Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin is an Irish poet
born in Cork (city)
.
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 they have one 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. Her first 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
and was shortlisted for the Poetry Now Award
.
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).
Poetry
Poetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning...
born in Cork (city)
Cork (city)
Cork is the second largest city in the Republic of Ireland and the island of Ireland's third most populous city. It is the principal city and administrative centre of County Cork and the largest city in the province of Munster. Cork has a population of 119,418, while the addition of the suburban...
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Life
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin is the daughter of Eilís DillonEilís Dillon
Eilís Dillon was an Irish author of 50 books. Her work has been translated into 14 languages....
and Professor Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin. She was educated at University College Cork and The University of Oxford
University of Oxford
The University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...
. She lives in Dublin with her husband Macdara Woods
Macdara Woods
Macdara Woods is an Irish poet born in Dublin.-Life:Macdara Woods is married to the poet Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, they have an adult son, Niall, a musician. Woods currently lives in Dublin and Umbria...
, and they have one 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. Her first collection won the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award
Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award
The Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award is an Irish poetry award for a collection of poems by an author who has not previously been published in collected form. It is confined to poets born on the island of Ireland, or of Irish nationality, or a long-term resident of Ireland. It is based on an open...
in 1973. In 2010 The Sun-fish was the winner of the Canadian-based International Griffin Poetry Prize
Griffin Poetry Prize
The Griffin Poetry Prize is Canada's most generous poetry award. It was founded in 2000 by businessman and philanthropist Scott Griffin. The awards go to one Canadian and one international poet who writes in the English language....
and was shortlisted for the Poetry Now Award
Poetry Now Award
The Poetry Now Award is an annual literary prize presented for the best single volume of poetry by an Irish poet. The €5,000 award is presented during the annual Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown Poetry Now international poetry festival. The festival began in 1996 and the first Poetry Now Award was bestowed...
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Poetry books
- 1972: Acts and Monuments, Dublin: The Gallery Press
- 1975: Site of Ambush, Dublin: The Gallery Press
- 1977: The Second Voyage, Dublin: The Gallery Press; Winston-Salem, NC: Wake Forest University Press, 1977, 1991)
- 1981: The Rose Geranium, Dublin: The Gallery Press
- 1986: The Second Voyage, Dublin: The Gallery Press; Newcastle Upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books; Winston-Salem, Wake Forest University Press, 1991
- 1989: The Magdalene Sermon, shortlisted for the Irish Times/Aer LingusAer LingusAer Lingus Group Plc is the flag carrier of Ireland. It operates a fleet of Airbus aircraft serving Europe and North America. It is Ireland's oldest extant airline, and its second largest after low-cost rival Ryanair...
Award, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press; Winston Salem, North Carolina: Wake Forest University Press, 1991 - 1994: The Brazen Serpent, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press; Winston-Salem, North Carolina: Wake Forest University Press, 1995
- 2001: The Girl Who Married the Reindeer, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press; Winston-Salem, North Carolina: Wake Forest University Press, 2002
- 2008: Selected Poems, Gallery Press, London: Oldcastle and Faber;Winston-Salem, North Carolina: Wake Forest University Press, 2009
- 2009: The Sun-fish, Gallery Press; Winston-Salem, NC: Wake Forest University Press, 2010 (winner of the 2010 International Griffin Poetry PrizeGriffin Poetry PrizeThe Griffin Poetry Prize is Canada's most generous poetry award. It was founded in 2000 by businessman and philanthropist Scott Griffin. The awards go to one Canadian and one international poet who writes in the English language....
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Translations
- 1999: The Water Horse: Poems in Irish by Nuala Ní DhomhnaillNuala Ní DhomhnaillNuala Ní Dhomhnaill is an Irish poet.Born in Lancashire, England in 1952, of Irish parents, she moved to Ireland at the age of 5, and was brought up in the Dingle Gaeltacht and in Nenagh, County Tipperary. Her uncle is Monsignor Pádraig Ó Fiannachta of An Daingean, the leading authority alive on...
with Translations into English by Medbh McGuckianMedbh McGuckianMedbh McGuckian is a poet from Northern Ireland.-Biography:She was born the third of six children as Maeve McCaughan to Hugh and Margaret McCaughan in North Belfast. Her father was a school headmaster and her mother an influential art and music enthusiast...
and Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press; Winston Salem, North Carolina: Wake Forest University Press, 2003 - 2005: Verbale by Michele Ranchetti, translated by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and others, Dublin: Instituto Italiano di Cultura
- 2005: After the Raising of Lazarus: Poems Translated from the Romanian by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, poems by Ileana Malancioiu, Cork: Southword Editions
- 2010: The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation (W. W. Norton & Company)
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).
External links
- Poetry International Web page on Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
- Wake Forest University Press Web page on Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
- Griffin Poetry Prize biography
- Griffin Poetry Prize reading, including video clip
- The Griffin Poetry Prize Questionnaire with Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin in the National Post