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]
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]
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, The Ages of a Woman and the Middle Ages, Irish University Review , 45, (2), 2015, p199-214
"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]
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]
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
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Poetry and Mystery, Religion and Literature, 45, (3), 2013, p182-91
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin and Susana Bayó Belenguer (eds), Translation right and wrong, 1st, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2013, 7-299pp
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Review of Miraculous Plenty: Irish Religious Folktales and Legends, by Seán Ó Súilleabháin , 13.06.23, The Medieval 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]
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
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]
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Review of Black Cat Bone, by John Burnside , Poetry Ireland Review, (106), 2012, p138-9
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Review of Middle-aged women in the Middle Ages , by Sue Niebrzydowski ed., , Óenach Reviews, 4, (1), 2012, p10-14
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin Ileana Mǎlǎncioiu, Legend of the Walled-up Wife, from the Romanian of Ileana Mǎlǎncioiu, Loughcrew, Gallery Press, 2011, 80 pppp
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Review of Forest Music , by Susan Connolly , Poetry Ireland Review, (105), 2011, p121-4
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Review of A Thorn in the Flesh: Selected poems , by Eddie Linden , Poetry Ireland Review, (105), 2011, p121-4
'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]
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Poetry Ireland Review, (105), 2011, p121-4
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 ]
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, The Sun-Fish, Winston-Salem, NC, Wake Forest University Press, 2010, 1-65pp
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
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and John Flood (eds.), Heresy and Orthodoxy in Early English Literature, 1350-1680, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2010, 1-174pp
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 ]
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]
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Selected Poems, Wake Forest, NC, Wake Forest University Press, 2009, 13 - 119pppp
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, The Sun-Fish (poems), Loughcrew, Gallery Press, 2009, 9-61pp
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
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]
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin, David Parris, Translation and Censorship: Patterns of Communication and Interference, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2009, 5 - 256pp
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Selected Poems, Loughcrew, Gallery Press, 2008, 13 - 119pp
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Selected Poems, London , Faber and Faber, 2008, 13 - 119pp
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, A View from the Grave: Translation into English in Ireland, Etudes Irlandaises, Autumn 2006, (31.2), 2007, p95 - 106
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Motives of Translation: More, Erasmus and Lucian, Hermathena, (183), 2007, p49 - 62
'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]
Renaissance and Ireland, John T. Koch, Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia, Vol. 4, Santa Barbara, Calif., ABC-CLIO, 2006, pp1492 - 1494, [Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin]
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]
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]
'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]
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
Eibhlín Dhubh Ní Chonaill, H.C.G. Matthew and Brian Harrison, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 40, 2004, pp849 - 850, [ Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin]
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, 'Vivian Mercier', New Hibernia Review, 8, (4 (Winter)), 2004, p146 - 147
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin , 'Wise & well-spoken: Field Day women & Translation' , Moving Worlds, Vol. 3, 86, (No.1), 2004, p73 - 86
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin (ed.), The Wilde Legacy, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2003, 156pp.pp
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, The Girl who married the Reindeer, Winston-Salem (North Carolina), Wake Forest U. P., 2002
Joseph Campbell, As I Was Among the Captives: the Prison Diary of Joseph Campbell, 1922-23, Cork, Cork University Press, 2001, 136pp
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
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]
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]
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
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]
Ireland: cultural context, A. C. Hamilton , The Spenser Encyclopedia, London, Routledge, 1996, pp403 - 404, [E. Ní Chuilleanáin ]
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin , Acts and Monuments of an unelected nation: the Cailleach writes about the Renaissance, The Southern Review, 31, (3), 1995, p570 - 580
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, The Brazen Serpent, Winston-Salem (North Carolina), Wake Forest U. P., 1995
Maria Edgeworth, Belinda, London, Everyman, 1993, 474 pp
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]
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, J. D. Pheifer, Noble and Joyous Histories: English Romances, 1375-1650, Dublin, Irish Academic Press, 1993, 297pp
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 ]
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, The Magdalene Sermon , Winston-Salem (North Carolina) , Wake Forest U.P., 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
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Irish Women: Image and Achievement,, Dublin, Arlen House , 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 ]
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 ]
Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Collected POems, 1st, Loughcrew Co. Meath, Gallery Press, 2020, 1-407pp
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, The Mother House, American, Winston-Salem North Carolina, Wake Forest University Press, 2020, 1-69pp
Antonella Anedda Angioy Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Dánta Antonella Anedda, Dublin, Cois Life, 2019, i-xvi, 1-52pp
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, The Mother House, Loughcrew Co. Meath, Gallery Press, 2019, 1-69pp
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Instead of a Shrine, Dublin, UCD Press, 2019, i-viii, 1-66pp
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Review of The Understanding of Ornament in the Italian Renaissance, by Clare Guest , Óenach: FMRSI Reviews , 8, (1), 2016, p11-19
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]
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, The Boys of Bluehill (poems), 1st, Loughcrew, Gallery Press, 2015, 11-67pp
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Review of Helen Waddell Reassessed: New Readings, by Jennifer FitzGerald , Óenach: FMRSI Reviews, 6, (1), 2014, p62-68
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, from the Romanian of Ileana Malancioiu, After the Raising of Lazarus, Cork, Munster Literature Centre, 2005, 67pp
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
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, The Girl who married the Reindeer, Loughcrew, Gallery Press, 2001
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, The Water Horse, with Medbh McGuckian, from the Irish of Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Loughcrew, Gallery Press , 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]
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, The Brazen Serpent, Loughcrew, Gallery Press, 1994
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, The Magdalene Sermon, Loughcrew, Gallery Press, 1989
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, The Second Voyage , revised edition, Newcastle-upon-Tyne , Bloodaxe, 1986
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, The Rose-Geranium, Dublin, Gallery Press, 1981
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, The Second Voyage, Dublin, Gallery Press, 1977
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Cork, with drawings by Brian Lalor, Dublin, Gallery Press, 1977
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Site of Ambush , Dublin,, Gallery Press, 1975
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Acts and Monuments, , Dublin, Gallery Press, 1973
Research Expertise
Description
Renaissance literature; Literature of the English Reformation; Translation studies; Literature and Folklore; Maria Edgeworth.Recognition
Awards and Honours
Griffin International Poetry Prize
Elected to Aosdána
O'Shaughnessy Prize for Poetry (Irish-American Cultural Institute)
Patrick Kavanagh Award for Poetry