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Irish poet and academic (born 1942)

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin (pronounced[əˈlʲeːnˠn̠ʲiːˈxɪl̠ʲənˠaːnʲ]; born 1942) is an Irish poet and academic. She was the Ireland Professor of Poetry (2016–19).^[1]

Biography

Ní Chuilleanáin was born in Cork in 1942, the daughter of Eilís Dillon and Professor Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin.

Professor Eilean Ni Chuilleanáin - Trinity College Dublin

She was educated at University College Cork and the University of Oxford. She lived in Dublin with her late husband Macdara Woods; they have one son, Niall Woods.

She is a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin and an emeritus professor of the School of English which she joined in 1966. Her broad academic interests (notably her specialism in Renaissance literature and her interest in translation) are reflected in her poetry.

She retired from full-time teaching in 2011 and a selection of her poems are currently on the syllabus for the Leaving Certificate, the final state examination for secondary school students.^[2] Ní C Babel Web Anthology :: Chuilleanáin, Eiléan Ní: Pygmalion's Image RAJU