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Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin

b. 1942·Wrote in English, and translator from Irish, Italian and Romanian

Contemporary · Co. Cork · English

Cork-born, Professor Emeritus at Trinity, co-founder of Cyphers. Her poetry is oblique, spatial and hermetic — nuns, sieges, thresholds, buried female histories — and unlike anyone else's. Ireland Professor of Poetry 2016–2019; one of the living Saoithe of Aosdána. Poetry Now Award 2019; Farmgate Award 2024.

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