Eilean Ni Chuilleanain

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin (pronounced [ɛˈlʲeːn̪ˠ nʲiː ˈxɪlʲaˌn̪ˠaːnʲ ]; born 28 November 1942) is an Irish poet and academic born in Cork.

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 they have one son, Niall. She is a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin and an emeritus professor of the School of English which she joined in 1966. Her broad academic interests (notably her specialism in Renaissance literature and her interest in translation) are reflected in her poetry. She retired from full-time teaching in 2011 and a selection of her poems are currently on the syllabus for the Leaving Certificate, the final state examination for secondary school students. Ní Chuilleanáin 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 2016, she was appointed Ireland Professor of Poetry by the President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins.

Ní Chuilleanáin published with The Gallery Press in Ireland and Wake Forest University Press in the United States.

In addition to the above, Ní Chuilleanáin's poetry is widely anthologised.

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