Background
Chuilleanáin, Eiléan Ní was born in 1942 in Cork, Ireland.
Chuilleanáin, Eiléan Ní was born in 1942 in Cork, Ireland.
Bachelor in English and History, University College Cork, 1962. Master of Arts in English, University College Cork, 1964. Student, University Oxford.
Co-founder, editor literature review Cyphers, since 1975. Associate professor English literature, fellow Trinity College Dublin, former dean faculty arts & letters.
Author: (books of poetry) Acts and Monuments, 1972, Site of Ambush, 1975, The Second Voyage, 1977, The Rose Geranium, 1981, The Second Voyage, 1986, The Magdalene Sermon, 1989, The Brazen Serpent, 1994, The Girl Who Married the Reindeer, 2001, Selected Poems, 2008, The Sun-fish, 2009 (International Griffin Poetry prize, Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry, 2010). Translator: After the Raising of Lazarus: Poems Translated from the Romanian, 2005. Contributor numerous works of poetry to anthologies.
Daughter of Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin and Eilís Dillon. Married Macdara Woods. 1 child Niall.