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Eiléan
ní Chuilleanóin
Eiléan
Ní Chuilleanáin was born 1942 in Cork and was educated at University
College Cork. Since 1966 she has taught at Trinity College, Dublin,
where she is now Associate Professor of English and former Dean of the
Faculty of Arts. Married to the poet Macdara Woods, they have one son,
Niall, who is twenty-three. With her husband and two other poets, she
founded the literary magazine Cyphers which has
survived the Irish climate since 1975.
She
has published a number of academic books and articles, as well as
poetry.
She has also published poetry translated from Latin,
French,
Italian, Irish and Romanian. She has won the Patrick Kavanagh
award
for poetry (for her first book), and the O’Shaughnessy award of the
Irish-American Cultural Institute.
Hugh Maxton
Justin Quinn
Kerry
Hardie
Was born in 1951. Chapbook, In Sickness
published by the Honest Ulsterman 1995. First collection, A
Furious Place, published Gallery Press, 1996; second
collection, Cry for the Hot Belly, Gallery Press
2000; first novel Hannie Bennet's Winter Marriage,
Harper Collins 2000. Winner of the Friends Provident/National Poetry
Prize 1996; twice winner of the Women's National Poetry Prize,
joint-winner of a Hennessy Award for Poetry.
Macdara Woods
Macdara Woods was born in Dublin, in 1942. He is a member, since 1986, of Aosdána
(set up by the Irish Government to honour those who have made an
outstanding contribution to the Arts in Ireland). He currently lives in
Dublin, and when he can in Umbria. He is the founder-editor of the
magazine Cyphers. He is married to poet Eiléan Ní
Chuilleanáin and they have a grown-up son, Niall, a musician. He has
read his poems from Berkeley, California, to the Gorki Institute,
Moscow, and Moscow State University.
Seamus
Heaney
Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995, was born on
April 13th, 1939, in Castledawson, County Derry, Northern Ireland. In
1961, Heaney graduated from Queen's University, Belfast, and was then
trained as a teacher at St. Joseph 's College of Education, where, in
1963, he took a position as a lecturer in English. In 1972, he gave up
his work at Queen's and moved from Belfast to County Wicklow. He has
been a resident of Dublin since 1976. In 1984 he was elected the
Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University. He
held the chair of Professor of Poetry at Oxford from 1989 to 1994. In
1997 he was appointed Ralph Waldo Emerson Poet in Residence at Harvard.
He has published many books of poetry, including Death of a
Naturalist (1966), Wintering Out
(1972), North (1975), Field Work
(1979), Station Island (1984), The
Haw Lantern (1987), Seeing Things
(1991), The Spirit Level (1996) and Electric
Light (2001). Selections of his poetry have appeared in Selected
Poems, 1965-1975 (1980), New Selected Poems
1966-1987 (1990) and Opened Ground
(1999). He has also written several volumes of criticism, including The
Government of the Tongue (1988) and The Redress
of Poetry (1995). His translations include Sweeney
Astray: A Version from the Irish (1983), The
Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes (1991)
[Sophocles' Philoctetes ] and Beowulf
(2000), which won the Whitbread Book of
the Year Award. He has been translated into Portuguese by Rui Carvalho
Homem and Vasco Graça Moura.
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