Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin

Irish Academic Pre Irish Academic Press

This book covers the many branches of the romance tradition in the central period of English literature, from the major alliterative works to the Renaissance and beyond. It includes essays on Chaucer's Knight's Tale and Wife of Bath's Tale, on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, on Malory's Morte Darthur, on burlesque romance, on Spencer's Faerie Queene, on Sidney's Arcadia, and on romance epic in the seventeenth century.

English Romances, 1375-1650

Noble and Joyous Histories

Eilean Ni Chuilleanain

To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the death of Oscar Wilde, Trinity College's School of English held a conference on the Wilde family. This book is the proceedings of the conference. The Wilde family was prominent, sometimes sensationally so, in the literary, scholarly, political and professional milieus of Victorian Dublin and then London. D. Coakley sketches in the social and professional background of the family; Peter Froggat and Michael Ryan assess the enduring value of Sir William Wilde's work as medical historian and statistician, and as archaeologist and antiquarian; Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin looks at the role of Oscar's mother, Speranza, as an ancestor-figure for a contemporary woman writer. Lucy McDiarmid and Alan Sinfield write on Wilde's trials and on the scandalous reverberations of his name in the 20th century. Robert Dunbar places Oscar Wilde's stories for children in their Victorian context, while Mary Elizabeth Burke-Kennedy considers their trans-formation into the successful theatre adaptation, The Star-Child. Wilde's plays are the subject of a lively discussion between distinguished Irish play-wrights and producers, Marina Carr, Thomas Kilroy, Michael Colgan and Patrick Mason.

The Wilde Legacy

Griffin Poetry Prize Judges' Citation “This beguiling poet opens many doors onto multiple worlds. From the outset, with the startling imagery of 'The Witch in the Wardrobe' – a 'fluent pantry', where 'the silk scarves came flying at her face like a car wash' – we are in a shifting realm, both real and otherworldly. The effect of her impressionistic style is like watching a photograph as it develops. The Sun-fish contains approaches to family and political history, thwarted pilgrimages in which Ní Chuilleanáin poses many questions – not always directly – and often chooses to leave the questions themselves unresolved, allowing them to resonate meaningfully past the actual poem's end. She is a truly imaginative poet, whose imagination is authoritative and transformative. She leads us into altered or emptied landscapes, such as that in 'The Polio Epidemic,' when children were kept indoors, but the poet escapes on a bicycle 'I sliced through miles of air/free as a plague angel descending/On places buses went …' Each poem is a world complete, and often they move between worlds, as in the beautiful 'A Bridge between Two Counties.' These are potent poems, with dense, captivating sound and a certain magic that proves not only to be believable but necessary, in fact, to our understanding of the world around us.”

The Sun-fish

Eavan Boland

Medbh McGuckian

Wake Forest University Press

Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill

This groundbreaking anthology includes poetry from Eavan Boland, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Medbh McGuckian, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Rita Ann Higgins, Paula Meehan, Mary O'Malley, Kerry Hardie, and Moya Cannon.

The Wake Forest Book of Irish Women's Poetry, 1967-2000

Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin

David L. Parris

Who are the censors of foreign literature? What motives influence them as they patrol the boundaries between cultures? Can cuts and changes sometimes save a book? What difference does it make when the text is for children, or designed for schools? These and other questions are explored in this wide-ranging international collection, with copious examples: from Catullus to Quixote, Petrarch to Shakespeare, Wollstonecraft to Waugh, Apuleius to Mansfield, how have migrating writers fared? We see many genres, from Celtic hero-tales to histories, autobiographies, polemics and even popular songs, transformed on their travels by the censor's hand.

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin

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