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Professor Eilean Ni Chuilleanáin
Fellow Emeritus, Fellows Emeritii

Biography

Born 1942 in Cork. Poet, founder-editor of the literary magazine Cyphers (1975), academic. Married to the poet Macdara Woods, she has one son, Niall.

Publications and Further Research Outputs

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Travels with a Monkey:Raphael Hythlodaye's Books in, editor(s)Wim Francois, Violet Soen, Anthony Dupont, Andrea Aldo Robiglio , Authority Revisited: Towards Thomas More and Erasmus in 1516, Turnhout, Brepols, 2020, pp537-559 , [Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin] Book Chapter, 2020

Translation and Collaboration in Renaissance Dublin in, editor(s)Crawford Gribben and Kathleen Miller , Dublin: Renaissance City of Literature, Manchester, Manchester University Press , 2017, pp150/171 , [Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin] Book Chapter, 2017

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, The Ages of a Woman and the Middle Ages, Irish University Review , 45, (2), 2015, p199-214 Journal Article, 2015

"A Present from the Moon": Pádraig de Brún agus tionchar na hiasachta ar Mháire Mhac an tSaoi in, editor(s)Louis de Paor , Míorúilt an Pharóiste: Aistí ar fhilíocht Mháire Mhac an tSaoi, , Indreabhán, Cló Iar-Chonnacht, 2014, pp97 - 107, [Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin] Book Chapter, 2014

Folklore and writing for children in twentieth-century Ireland in, editor(s)Anne Markey and Anne O'Connor , Folklore & Modern Irish Writing, Sallins, Irish Academic Press, 2014, pp113-28 , [Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin] Book Chapter, 2014

Anonymous, 'The Song of the Woman of Beare', The Finest Music: an Anthology of Early Irish Lyrics, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, London, Faber and Faber, 2014, 44 - 49 Poetry, 2014

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Poetry and Mystery, Religion and Literature, 45, (3), 2013, p182-91 Journal Article, 2013

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin and Susana Bayó Belenguer (eds), Translation right and wrong, 1st, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2013, 7-299pp Book, 2013

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Review of Miraculous Plenty: Irish Religious Folktales and Legends, by Seán Ó Súilleabháin , 13.06.23, The Medieval Review, 2013 Review, 2013

Shakespeare, Thomas More and the Princes in the Tower in, editor(s)Karen Hodder ,Brendan O'Connell , Transmission and generation in medieval and Renaissance literature, Essays in honour of John Scattergood, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2012, pp113-127 , [Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin] Book Chapter, 2012

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin Ileana Mǎlǎncioiu,, Legend of the Walled-up Wife, from the Romanian of Ileana Mǎlǎncioiu, , Winston-Salem NC, Wake Forest University Press, 2012, 86 pppp Book, 2012

Home and places in, editor(s)Natasa Durovicova Christopher Merrill , The New Symposium: Writers and Poets on What We Hold in Common, Iowa City , 91st Meridian Books, 2012, pp255-62 , [Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin] Book Chapter, 2012

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Review of Black Cat Bone, by John Burnside , Poetry Ireland Review, (106), 2012, p138-9 Review, 2012

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Review of Middle-aged women in the Middle Ages , by Sue Niebrzydowski ed., , Óenach Reviews, 4, (1), 2012, p10-14 Review, 2012 URL

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin Ileana Mǎlǎncioiu, Legend of the Walled-up Wife, from the Romanian of Ileana Mǎlǎncioiu, Loughcrew, Gallery Press, 2011, 80 pppp Book, 2011

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Review of Forest Music , by Susan Connolly , Poetry Ireland Review, (105), 2011, p121-4 Review, 2011

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Review of A Thorn in the Flesh: Selected poems , by Eddie Linden , Poetry Ireland Review, (105), 2011, p121-4 Review, 2011

'Odes to the Future': Pearse Hutchinson's Poetry and History in, editor(s)Philip Coleman, Maria Johnston , Reading Pearse Hutchinson: From Findrum to Fisterra, Dublin, Irish Academic Press, 2011, pp97 - 108, [Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin] Book Chapter, 2011

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Poetry Ireland Review, (105), 2011, p121-4 Review, 2011

Introduction in, editor(s)Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and John Flood , Heresy and Orthodoxy in Early English Literature, 1350-1680, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2010, pp11-22 , [Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and John Flood ] Book Chapter, 2010

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, The Sun-Fish, Winston-Salem, NC, Wake Forest University Press, 2010, 1-65pp Book, 2010

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Review of Making Ireland Roman: Irish Neo-Latin Writers and the Republic of Letters , by Jason Harris and Keith Sidwell, Editors, , Oenach, 2, (2), 2010, p1-4 Review, 2010 URL

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and John Flood (eds.), Heresy and Orthodoxy in Early English Literature, 1350-1680, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2010, 1-174pp Book, 2010

Obscure and giddy sects: Milton and the scandal of divorce in, editor(s)Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and John Flood , Heresy and Orthodoxy in Early English Literature, 1350-1680, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2010, pp127-151 , [Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin ] Book Chapter, 2010

The Petrarch they tried to ban in, editor(s)Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, CormacÓ Cuilleanáin, David Parris , Translation and Censorship: Patterns of Communication and Interference, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2009, pp93 - 105, [Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Deirdre Serjeantson] Book Chapter, 2009

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Selected Poems, Wake Forest, NC, Wake Forest University Press, 2009, 13 - 119pppp Book, 2009

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, The Sun-Fish (poems), Loughcrew, Gallery Press, 2009, 9-61pp Book, 2009

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Review of Ireland in the Renaissance, c. 1540-1660, by Thomas Herron and Michael Potterton, eds , Oenach, 1, (1), 2009, p1-9 Review, 2009 URL

Introduction in, editor(s)Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin, David Parris , Translation and Censorship: Patterns of Communication and interference, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2009, pp9 - 23, [Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin, David Parris] Book Chapter, 2009

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin, David Parris, Translation and Censorship: Patterns of Communication and Interference, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2009, 5 - 256pp Book, 2009

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Selected Poems, Loughcrew, Gallery Press, 2008, 13 - 119pp Book, 2008

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Selected Poems, London , Faber and Faber, 2008, 13 - 119pp Book, 2008

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, A View from the Grave: Translation into English in Ireland, Etudes Irlandaises, Autumn 2006, (31.2), 2007, p95 - 106 Journal Article, 2007

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Motives of Translation: More, Erasmus and Lucian, Hermathena, (183), 2007, p49 - 62 Journal Article, 2007

'Becoming the Patriarch: Masculinity in Maria Edgeworth's Ormond' in, editor(s)Patricia Boyle Haberstroh & Christine St. Peter , Opening the Field: Irish Women, Texts and Contexts, Cork, Cork University Press, 2007, pp31 - 42, [Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin] Book Chapter, 2007

Renaissance and Ireland, John T. Koch, Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia, Vol. 4, Santa Barbara, Calif., ABC-CLIO, 2006, pp1492 - 1494, [Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin] Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 2006

The motives of translation: Sir Thomas More's version of the Life of Pico della Mirandola in, editor(s)V. J. Scattergood, Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin, Corinna Salvadori Lonergan , Italian Culture: Interactions, Transpositions, Translations, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2006, pp105 - 120, [Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin] Book Chapter, 2006

Daddies and Telephones: The Wild and the Tame in Children's Literature. in, editor(s)Mary Shine Thompson & Celia Keenan , Treasure islands : studies in children's literature, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2006, pp187 - 199, [Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin] Book Chapter, 2006

'J'ai Mal a Nos Dents' in, editor(s)Rosemary Raughter , Religious Women and their History, Dublin and Portland, Oregon, Irish Academic Press, 2005, pp116 - 118, [Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin] Book Chapter, 2005

Roberto Bertoni, Melita Cataldi, Riccardo Duranti, Giovanna Iorio, from the English of Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Testo di Seta (poems translated into Italian), Torino, Trauben, 2004, 80pp Book, 2004

Eibhlín Dhubh Ní Chonaill, H.C.G. Matthew and Brian Harrison, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 40, 2004, pp849 - 850, [ Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin] Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 2004

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, 'Vivian Mercier', New Hibernia Review, 8, (4 (Winter)), 2004, p146 - 147 Journal Article, 2004

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin , 'Wise & well-spoken: Field Day women & Translation' , Moving Worlds, Vol. 3, 86, (No.1), 2004, p73 - 86 Journal Article, 2004

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin (ed.), The Wilde Legacy, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2003, 156pp.pp Book, 2003

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, The Girl who married the Reindeer, Winston-Salem (North Carolina), Wake Forest U. P., 2002 Book, 2002

Joseph Campbell, As I Was Among the Captives: the Prison Diary of Joseph Campbell, 1922-23, Cork, Cork University Press, 2001, 136pp Book, 2001

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, The Water Horse with Medbh McGuckian, from the Irish of Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Winston'Salem (North Carolina), Wake Forest U.P., 2001 Book, 2001

Nuns: a Subject for a Woman Writer in, editor(s) Patricia Boyle Haberstroh , My self, My Muse, Syracuse, New York,, Syracuse University Press, 2001, pp17 - 31, [Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin] Book Chapter, 2001

Strange Ceremonies: Reformation, ritual and bodily presence in, editor(s)Amanda Piesse , The making of sixteenth-century identity, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2000, pp133 - 154, [Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin] Book Chapter, 2000

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Forged and Fabulous Chronicles: Reading Spenser as an Irish Writer, Irish University Review: A Journal of Irish Studies, 26, (2), 1996, p237 - 251 Journal Article, 1996

The Voices of Maria Edgeworth's comedy in, editor(s)Theresa O'Connor , The comic tradition in Irish women writers , Gainesville, University Press of Florida, 1996, pp21 - 39, [Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin] Book Chapter, 1996

Ireland: cultural context, A. C. Hamilton , The Spenser Encyclopedia, London, Routledge, 1996, pp403 - 404, [E. Ní Chuilleanáin ] Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 1996

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin , Acts and Monuments of an unelected nation: the Cailleach writes about the Renaissance, The Southern Review, 31, (3), 1995, p570 - 580 Journal Article, 1995

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, The Brazen Serpent, Winston-Salem (North Carolina), Wake Forest U. P., 1995 Book, 1995

Maria Edgeworth, Belinda, London, Everyman, 1993, 474 pp Book, 1993

Sidney's Political Odyssey: anti-tyranny themes, Sidney's travels and Arcadia in, editor(s)E. Ní Chuilleanáin and J.D. Pheifer , Noble and Joyous Histories: English Romances, 1375-1650, Dublin, Irish Academic Press, 1993, pp195 - 219, [E. Ní Chuilleanáin] Book Chapter, 1993

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, J. D. Pheifer, Noble and Joyous Histories: English Romances, 1375-1650, Dublin, Irish Academic Press, 1993, 297pp Book, 1993

Borderlands of Irish Poetry in, editor(s)Elmer Andrews , Contemporary Irish Poetry, a collection of Critical Essays, London, Macmillan, 1993, pp25 - 40, [E. Ní Chuilleanáin ] Book Chapter, 1993

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, The Magdalene Sermon , Winston-Salem (North Carolina) , Wake Forest U.P., 1990 Book, 1990

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, The debate between Thomas More and William Tyndale, 1528-33: Ideas on literature and religion' , The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 39, (3 ), 1988, p382 - 411 Journal Article, 1988

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Irish Women: Image and Achievement,, Dublin, Arlen House , 1985 Book, 1985

Women as Writers: Dánta Grá to Maria Edgeworth in, editor(s)E. Ní Chuilleanáin , Irish Women: Image and Achievement, Dublin, Arlen House, 1985, pp111 - 126, [E. Ní Chuilleanáin ] Book Chapter, 1985

Time, place and the congregation in Donne's sermons in, V. J. Scattergood , Literature and learning in medieval and Renaissance England: essays presented to Fitzroy Pyle, Dublin, Irish Academic Press, 1984, pp197 - 215, [E. Ní Chuilleanáin ] Book Chapter, 1984

Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Collected POems, 1st, Loughcrew Co. Meath, Gallery Press, 2020, 1-407pp Book, 2020

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, The Mother House, American, Winston-Salem North Carolina, Wake Forest University Press, 2020, 1-69pp Book, 2020

Antonella Anedda Angioy Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Dánta Antonella Anedda, Dublin, Cois Life, 2019, i-xvi, 1-52pp Book, 2019

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, The Mother House, Loughcrew Co. Meath, Gallery Press, 2019, 1-69pp Book, 2019

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Instead of a Shrine, Dublin, UCD Press, 2019, i-viii, 1-66pp Book, 2019

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Review of The Understanding of Ornament in the Italian Renaissance, by Clare Guest , Óenach: FMRSI Reviews , 8, (1), 2016, p11-19 Review, 2016

Rousing the reader: Paul Muldoon's Poetic Language in, editor(s)Maurice Earls and Enda O'Doherty , Space to Think: Ten Years of the Dublin Review of Books, Dublin, Dublin Review of Books, 2016, pp171-76 , [Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin] Book Chapter, 2016

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, The Boys of Bluehill (poems), 1st, Loughcrew, Gallery Press, 2015, 11-67pp Book, 2015

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Review of Helen Waddell Reassessed: New Readings, by Jennifer FitzGerald , Óenach: FMRSI Reviews, 6, (1), 2014, p62-68 Review, 2014

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, from the Romanian of Ileana Malancioiu, After the Raising of Lazarus, Cork, Munster Literature Centre, 2005, 67pp Book, 2005

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin and Gabriel Rosenstock, from the Italian of Michele Ranchetti, Verbale/Minutes /Tuairisc, Dublin, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, 2002, 176pp Book, 2002

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, The Girl who married the Reindeer, Loughcrew, Gallery Press, 2001 Book, 2001

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, The Water Horse, with Medbh McGuckian, from the Irish of Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Loughcrew, Gallery Press , 2000 Book, 2000

1910-1919: changes and translations in, editor(s)Noel Duffy and Theo Dorgan , Watching the river flow: a century in Irish poetry, Dublin, Poetry Ireland, 1999, pp123 - 143, [Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin] Book Chapter, 1999

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, The Brazen Serpent, Loughcrew, Gallery Press, 1994 Book, 1994

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, The Magdalene Sermon, Loughcrew, Gallery Press, 1989 Book, 1989

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, The Second Voyage , revised edition, Newcastle-upon-Tyne , Bloodaxe, 1986 Book, 1986

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, The Rose-Geranium, Dublin, Gallery Press, 1981 Book, 1981

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, The Second Voyage, Dublin, Gallery Press, 1977 Book, 1977

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Cork, with drawings by Brian Lalor, Dublin, Gallery Press, 1977 Book, 1977

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Site of Ambush , Dublin,, Gallery Press, 1975 Book, 1975

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Acts and Monuments, , Dublin, Gallery Press, 1973 Book, 1973

Research Expertise

Description

Renaissance literature; Literature of the English Reformation; Translation studies; Literature and Folklore; Maria Edgeworth.

Keywords

Literature and folklore; Literature of the Reformation; Renaissance literature; Translation studies

Recognition

Awards and Honours

Griffin International Poetry Prize 2010

Elected to Aosdána 1996

O'Shaughnessy Prize for Poetry (Irish-American Cultural Institute) 1992

Patrick Kavanagh Award for Poetry 1973