The Centre for Irish Studies is delighted to invite you to a poetry reading by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, which will take place at Kavárna Na Boršově (Náprstkova 10, Praha 1) on Tuesday 16 April at 19:30.
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, whose career spans more than fifty years, has for long been recognized as one of Ireland’s foremost poets. She writes in English and is fluent in Irish and a number of other languages as well, and her work remarkably merges the influences of Ireland’s two major poetic traditions (the Gaelic and the Anglophone) with a truly internationalist, intercultural scope of reference. Since her early works, represented by collections such as Acts and Monuments (1972) and The Second Voyage (1977), Ní Chuilleanáin has been changing the face of Irish poetry by foregrounding voices and perspectives it had previously omitted, including those of women and other marginalized figures. She served as Ireland Professor of Poetry (2016–2019) and is a Professor Emerita of Trinity College Dublin, where she taught for many years in the School of English. She is the recipient of many prizes and her latest collection, The Map of the World, published in 2023, has been her second book to be shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. As Maria Johnston writes, ‘one could spend one’s whole life reading Ní Chuilleanáin’s oceanic oeuvre and still feel that one has only sailed on the surface of this fugitive poet’s unending, elaborate, and endlessly transformative mysteries.’
The event is part of the EFACIS Irish Itinerary, and has been supported by the Department of Foreign Affairs, Ireland.
