Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin (born 28 November 1942) is an Irish poet.

Life
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin is the daughter of Eilís Dillon and Professor Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin. Born in Cork (city), 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.

Recognition
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.

Poetry

 * 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 Lingus 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 Prize)

Translations

 * 1999: 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; 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).