Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
Biography
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin is a poet and academic. She is the author of multiple books of poetry and a recipient of several awards including the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award (1973) and the Griffin Poetry Prize (2010). She was Ireland Professor of Poetry 2016-19.
Articles by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
2026
2022
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Literature
A Restless Imagination
Frank McGuinness is a writer of openness and adventure. Openness to form: while best known as a playwright, while highly regarded as a poet since…
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Literature
Understanding the Bards
A fourteenth-century bardic poet and patronage in medieval Ireland
2020
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What Must Be Told
The first duty of the artist is to be lucky. To be there like the photographer, at the right time and with the right equipment…
2019
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Down among the Greeks
References to a First Communion, a birthday, suggest a recognisably Irish calendar, where seasons, generations, routine festivals, interweave, and time tolerates these interlocking layers of…
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How Perfectly the Parts Fit
Michael Coady’s poems revolve around his home town of Carrick-on-Suir, where the river and the countryside are as essential to living as the air, but…
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Irish Literature
The Deep Music of the World
Michelle O’Sullivan’s three collections, but especially this new one, will convince many that her work should find its way to attentive readers, who it is…
2017
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Irish Literature
The Return
After a life lived mainly ‘elsewhere than in Ireland’, Harry Clifton returned to live in Portobello, near his boyhood home. The return brings with it…
2016
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Irish Literature
Hard and Soft
The virtues of Jane Clarke’s first verse collection include a broad sympathy that never usurps the voice of the other, a pleasure in ingenious objects…
2015
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Irish Literature
Rousing the Reader
It is language itself ‑ its multiplicity, its straining after meaning, the assumptions buried within it ‑ that are illuminated by Paul Muldoon’s work, with…