Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin was born in Cork City in 1942. She was a founder member of Cyphers, the literary journal (1975). Her first collection, Acts and Monuments, won the Patrick Kavanagh Award. The Sun-fish (2009) received the Griffin International Poetry Prize and The Mother House (2019) the Irish Times Poetry Now Award. Her Collected Poems (2020) won the Pigott Poetry Prize. The Map of the World (2023) was shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize and won the Farmgate Café National Poetry Award. Eiléan is a Fellow and Professor of English (Emeritus) at Trinity College Dublin. She served as Ireland Professor of Poetry from 2016-2019 and, in 2022, was elected a Saoi, the highest honour of Aosdána. Her latest book, New Selected Poems, was published by The Gallery Press in September 2025. 

Eiléan’s participation in this year’s festival is supported by The Gallery Press