Make a Connection: Borbála Faragó and Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
Presented in association with The Heritage Council.
Ó Bhéal
9.30pm
Monday, 17 September
The Long Valley, Winthrop St, Cork
For the European Year of Cultural Heritage (EYCH), Ó Bhéal presents a series of paired readings featuring established Irish or European poets with poets who have migrated to Ireland.
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin was born in Cork City in 1942, educated there and at Oxford before spending her working life as an academic in Trinity College, Dublin. She was a founder member of Cyphers, a literary journal and has won the Patrick Kavanagh Award, the Irish Times Award for Poetry, the O’Shaughnessy Award of the Irish-American Cultural Institute which called her “among the very best poets of her generation”, and the International Griffin Poetry Prize.
Her collections include Acts and Monuments (1972, winner of the 1973 Patrick Kavanagh Award), Site of Ambush (1975), The Second Voyage (1977, 1986), The Rose Geranium (1981), The Magdalene Sermon (1989) which was shortlisted for the Irish Times/Aer Lingus Award, The Brazen Serpent (1994), The Girl Who Married the Reindeer (2001), Selected Poems (2008) and Legend of the Walled-up Wife (translations from the Romanian of Ileana Malancioiu, 2011). The Boys of Bluehill (2015) is her first collection since The Sun-fish, which won the 2010 Griffin International Poetry Prize and was also a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin is a Fellow and Professor of English (Emerita) at Trinity College, Dublin and a member of Aosdána. She was appointed as Ireland Professor of Poetry in 2016.
Borbála Faragó, originally from Hungary, is an academic specialising in contemporary Irish poetry. She is the author of a number of articles, and a monograph on the work of Medbh McGuckian. Together with Eva Bourke she is also the editor of the anthology Landing Places: Immigrant Poets in Ireland (Dedalus Press, 2010). Her research interests include literature and cultural studies, poetry, literary theory, gender, ecocriticism and discourses of migration and transnationalism.
She holds a PhD from University College Dublin, and an MA from ELTE, Budapest. Although she primarily writes poetry for her desk-drawer, some of her English language work appeared in Poetry Ireland Review, Southword Journal, Dublin Poetry Review and Open Wide Magazine. Currently, she shares her time between Dublin and Budapest.
