Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin will be reading at Universities in Granada (28 January) and Seville (31 January) as part of the 2025 EFACIS Irish itinerary.
‘Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, with her luminous poetry, weaves history, myth, and the quiet resilience o Irish womanhood into verses that transcend time, offering readers a bridge between the sacred and the everyday life.’ — Iván Gómez Rojas
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin was born in Cork City in 1942. She was a founder member of Cyphers, the literary journal (1975). Her first collection, Acts and Monuments, won the Patrick Kavanagh Award. The Gallery Press has published her nine collections of poems including The Sun-fish which won the Griffin International Poetry Prize and The Mother House (2019), winner of the Irish Times Poetry Now Award. Her Collected Poems (2020) won the Pigott Poetry Prize.
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin is a Fellow and Professor of English (Emeritus) at Trinity College Dublin. She served as Ireland Professor of Poetry from 2016-2019 and, in 2022, was elected a Saoi, the highest honour of Aosdána.
