Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin was born in Cork City in 1942 and educated there and at Oxford before spending her working life as an academic in Trinity College, Dublin. Her numerous awards include the Patrick Kavanagh Award, the International Griffin Poetry Prize and the 1573 International Poetry Award, one of China’s highest literary honours. Her collections, published by The Gallery Press, include Acts and Monuments (1972, winner of the 1973 Patrick Kavanagh Award), Site of Ambush (1975), The Rose Geranium (1981), The Magdalene Sermon (1989), The Girl Who Married the Reindeer (2001), Selected Poems (2008), The Sun-fish (shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2009 and winner of the 2010 Griffin International Poetry Prize), and The Mother House (2019, winner of the 2020 Irish Times Poetry Now Award). Her Collected Poems (2020) won the Pigott Prize in 2021. Ní Chuilleanáin is a Fellow and Professor of English (Emerita) at Trinity College, Dublin. She served as Ireland Professor of Poetry from 2016-2019. Photo © Bríd O’Donovan for The Gallery Press
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