Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies articles

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The Sister.(Poem)(Brief article)
March 22, 2007... The Sister i How on earth did she manage That journey on her own? When she was a young woman They had plenty to keep them busy, They were small, they felt queasy, They gripped a pillar in the shade And held on, And as for leaving home-- ...

Interview with Eilean Ni Chulleanain
March 22, 2007... I'll start with a question about your life in general. It's very full: teaching, four years as Dean of the Arts Faculty at Trinity College Dublin, writing both poetry and prose, your life as wife and mother, with your son leaving university. How do you balance all of this? You have three...

'Each Page Lies Open to the Version of Every Other': History in the Poetry of Eilean Ni Chuilleanain
March 22, 2007... 'History is the subject of a structure whose site is not homogeneous, empty time, but time filled by the presence of the now'. Walter Benjamin, Illuminations. (1) To make a case for history in Eilean Ni Chuilleanain's poetry, a case must first be made for the contemporary. The collapsed...

'The World Not Dead after All': Eilean Ni Chuilleanain's Work of Revival
March 22, 2007... Help is at hand Though out of reach: The world not dead after all. 'The Architectural Metaphor'. (1) From models she has found in that protoypical cultural revival, the English Renaissance, Eilean Ni Chuilleanain has developed the 'copious' into a poetic strategy that we might call the work...

Introduction
March 22, 2007... Eilean Ni Chuilleanain's first collection of poetry, Acts and Monuments, appeared in 1972. Since then, she has published seven collections, Site of Ambush (1975), Cork (1977), The Second Voyage (1977), The Rose Geranium (1981), The Magdalene Sermon (1989), The Brazen Serpent (1994), and The...