Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin: Poetry Reading and In-Conversation The UK BOOK LAUNCH of her “New Selected Poems”

The ICC is delighted to present one of Ireland’s leading Poets, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, to mark the UK BOOK LAUNCH of her “New Selected Poems” which generously represents poems from each of her ten collections and culminates in a series of powerful new poems, confirming that she is, simply, one of the finest poets at work in the world today.
For this very Special Event, Eiléan will read from her new selected collection and she will also read poems from some of her other publications, including THE MAP OF THE WORLD, which was shortlisted for the TS Eliot prize in 2023. Eiléan will also be in- conversation with the Journalist Dorothy Allen and she will talk about her life and her work. It’s a true privilege for the ICC to present Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, who is a Fellow and Professor of English (Emerita) at Trinity College, Dublin; She served as Ireland’s Professor of Poetry from 2016-2019 and in May 2022 she was elected ‘Saoi’ by the
members of Aosdána, the highest honour that an artist in Ireland can ever have bestowed upon them.