Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
Over a series of nine poetry volumes published in Ireland, beginning in 1972,
's central theme has been the emergence of female subjectivity 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.
- BirthName: Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin In Irish, daughters add Ní (the acute accent is called a fada in Irish) to their father's last name, whereas sons add Ó or Ui or Mac. In some areas of Gaeltacht, a married woman would keep her maiden name, although her children would take her husband's name, as in the case of , who lived on the Blasket Islands in the early twentieth century.'s siblings' last names are transliterated in many sources so that Chuilleanain becomes Cuilleanain.