Perceptions of Contemporary Ireland in the Poetry of Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.37389/abei.v11i0.3655Schlagwörter:
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, language, identity, history, topographical, domestic spaceAbstract
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin (Cork, 1942) has published various collections of poetry and presently holds a solid position among the most distinguished
Irish poets. The paper discusses the work of Ní Chuillenáin aiming at identifying aspects and references of contemporary Ireland in her poems. The main concern of the research is to analyze how Ní Chuilleanáin deals with some thematic elements such as language, identity, history, topographical and domestic space, politics and religion, rendering to the reader a special depiction of contemporary life in Ireland.
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