You are cordially invited to a poetry reading by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin this Friday, April 19th at 19:00, organised in conjunction with the European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS) and the Vienna Centre for Irish Studies:
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin is one of Ireland's foremost poets and is widely regarded as one of the most renowned and accomplished poets of her generation, both in Ireland and internationally. She has won the International Griffin Poetry Prize, the 1573 International Poetry Award, the Patrick Kavanagh Award, the Irish Times Award for Poetry, the O’Shaughnessy Award of the Irish-American Cultural Institute, the Pigott Poetry Prize, and has twice been shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Award for Poetry, most recently last year for her current collection, The Map of the World. Eiléan is a Fellow and Professor of English (Emerita) at Trinity College, Dublin. She served as Ireland Professor of Poetry from 2016-2019. In May 2022 she was elected to the position of Saoi by the members of Aosdána, the highest honour of that affiliation of artists, and a position previously held by writers such as Samuel Beckett, Seamus Heaney, and Brian Friel.
Please register via e-mail to georgina.nugent-folan@univie.ac.at
