Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
Standard Name: Ní Chuilleanáin, Eiléan
Used Form: Eilean Ni Chuilleanain
Over a series of eight poetry volumes published in Ireland, beginning in 1972, ENC
's central theme has been the emergence of female subjectivity
Allen Randolph, Jody. “Making it new”. Women’s Review of Books, No. 8, pp. 24 - 5.
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and spirituality from variously-depicted hampering and confinement. Her vibrant imagery draws together ancient and modern worlds. She has also published translations and scholarly essays, and is a founder editor of the magazine Cyphers.
Gallery Press
published The Water Horse: Poems in Irish by Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, in which the Irish text of Dohmnaill's poems stands alongside English translations by MMG
and Eiléan Ní Cuilleanáin
.