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 books
1972: Acts and Monuments, Dublin: The Gallery Press[1]
1975: Site of Ambush, Dublin: The Gallery Press[1]
1977: The Second Voyage, Dublin: The Gallery Press;[1] Winston Salem, NC: Wake Forest University Press, 1977, 1991)[2]
1981: The Rose Geranium, Dublin: The Gallery Press[1]
1986: The Second Voyage, Dublin: The Gallery Press;[1] Newcastle Upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books; Wake Forrest University Press, 1991[2]
1989: The Magdalene Sermon, shortlisted for the Irish Times/Aer Lingus Award, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press;[3] Winston Salem, North Carolina: Wake Forest University Press, 1991[2]
1994: The Brazen Serpent, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press;[3] Winston Salem, North Carolina: Wake Forest University Press, 1995[2]
2001: The Girl Who Married the Reindeer, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press;[3] Winston Salem, North Carolina: Wake Forest University Press, 2002[2]
2008: Selected Poems Gallery Press, London: Oldcastle and Faber[3]
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[3]
2005: After the Raising of Lazarus: Poems Translated from the Romanian by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, poems by Ileana Malancioiu, Cork: Southword Editions[3]
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).
Notes and references
Anne Fogarty ed. Irish University Review: A Journal of Irish Studies. Special Issue: Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin Vol. 37, no. 1 (Dublin, 2007)