Macdara Woods

Standard Name: Woods, Macdara

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
ENC married a fellow poet, Macdara Woods.
International Who’s Who in Poetry 2005. Europe Publications, 21 Oct. 2004.
They have an adult son named Niall. Macdara Woods died in 2018.
McDonald, Roxanne. “Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin”. Guide to Literary Masters & Their Works, Salem Press, Jan. 2007.
Bryce, Colette. “Making a Poem: Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin”. Mslexia, Vol.
44
, 2010, p. 22.
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Occupation Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
With her husband Macdara Woods, Pearse Hutchinson, and Leland Bardwell, ENC organized and ran a weekly poetry reading in a pub in Dublin. They abandoned this out of exhaustion during the...
Textual Production Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
In 1975 four poet-editors—ENC, her husband, Pearse Hutchinson, and Leland Bardwell —launched the first issue of Cyphers, a magazine aiming to counteract the Irish literary subservience to English,
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
which is still flourishing in 2014.
Cyphers. http://www.cyphers.ie/.
Bryce, Colette. “Making a Poem: Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin”. Mslexia, Vol.
44
, 2010, p. 22.
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Texts

Hutchinson, Pearse, and Leland Bardwell. Cyphers. Editors Ní Chuilleanáin, Eiléan and Macdara Woods, 73 issues as of May 2014.