Eiléan Ní Chuilleaná in’s transforming and transporting ways of seeing are like no other: there’s the ‘whisper of a cashmere sleeve,’ the nuns’ ‘leathery kiss’ and a lighthouse ‘scraping the sea with its beam.’ Ní Chuilleaná in is the author of numerous poetry collections, including Acts and Monuments (1966), The Magdalene Sermon (1989), Selected Poems (2009) and The Sun-fish (2010). She translated Ileana Malancioiu’s After the Raising of Lazarus (2005) from the Romanian and Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill’s The Water Horse (2001, co-translated with Medbh McGuckian). She has won numerous awards, including the Patrick Kavanagh Award and the prestigious O’Shaughnessy Poetry Award by The Irish American Cultural Institute, which called her “among the very best poets of her generation.” She lives and teaches in Dublin. This event will be moderated by Mary O’Donoghue, Irish fiction writer, poet and translator, author of Before the House Burns (The Lilliput Press, 2010) and Among These Winters (Dedalus Press, 2007). She is also Associate Professor of English at Babson College. Co-sponsored by the College of General Studies, the BU Center for the Humanities (BUCH), the Center for the Study of Europe, the Department of Classics (CAS), the literary journal AGNI, and the Institute for the Study of Irish Culture.
