Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin (pronounced [əˈlʲeːnˠ n̠ʲiː ˈxɪl̠ʲənˠaːnʲ]; born 1942) is an Irish poet and academic.
[1] Ní Chuilleanáin was born in Cork in 1942, the daughter of Eilís Dillon and Professor Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin.
She retired from full-time teaching in 2011 and a selection of her poems are currently on the syllabus for the Leaving Certificate, the final state examination for secondary school students.
[3] She is a founder of the literary magazine Cyphers, alongside Pearse Hutchinson, Macdara Woods and Leland Bardwell.
[4] She has contributed several recitations of her poems, including 'Small' (written after the death of Pearse Hutchinson), to the Irish Poetry Reading Archive.