Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
| Dates: | 5 December 2013 |
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| Times: | 18:00 - 20:30 |
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| What is it: | Literature Live |
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| Organiser: | Martin Harris Centre |
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| How much: | Free |
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Born 1942 in Cork, she was educated in Cork and Oxford. Poet and Emeritus Professor of English, Trinity College, Dublin, where she has taught since 1966 – she still teaches on translation and comparative literature courses after her retirement in 2011. She has researched and published academic work on the literature of the English Reformation, on Irish literature 1750-1900, on children’s literature in the twentieth century and on translation. Co-founder with Macdara Woods, Leland Bardwell and Pearse Hutchinson of the literary magazine Cyphers. Her Selected Poems was published by Gallery Press and Faber in 2008. Her latest book, The Sun-Fish, was awarded the Canadian Griffin International Prize for poetry in 2010. A new collection is in preparation. She has translated poetry from several languages, in particular The Water Horse from the Irish of Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, with Medbh McGuckian, and After the Raising of Lazarus and Legend of the walled-up wife from the Romanian of Ileana M?l?ncioiu. She is currently working on translations from Italian.
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John Rylands Library
150 Deansgate,
Mancehster
