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.