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Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill is one of the most popular of contemporary Irish poets. Writing in Irish her work draws upon themes of ancient Irish folklore and mythology, combined with contemporary themes of femininity, sexuality, and culture. Born in Lancashire, England in 1952 to Irish physicians, Ni Dhomhnaill was sent to live with relatives in the Irish speaking areas of Co. Kerry and Tipperary at the age of five. She studied English and Irish at UCC in 1969 and became part of the ‘Innti’ school of poets. In 1973, she married Turkish geologist Dogan Leflef and lived abroad in Turkey and Holland for seven years. One year after her return to Co. Kerry in 1980, she published her first collection of poetry in Irish, An Dealg Droighin (1981), and became a member of AosdЁўna.
Her works include FЁ¦ar Suaithinseach (1984); Rogha Dionta/Selected Poems (selected translations with parallel text 1986, 1988, 1990); Pharaoh’s Daughter (selected translations with parallel text 1990); Feis (1991); The Astrakhan Cloak (selected translations with parallel text 1992), and The Water Horse (selected translations with parallel text 1991).
Contemporary poets who have been drawn to translate her work include Michel Hartnett, Paul Muldoon, Seamus Heaney, Medbh McGuckian. Like most poets writing in Irish she has been ambivalent about her English-language profile, describing commentators who choose to critique her work without reference to the original texts as suffering from “the utter complacency of monolingual speakers of English”. Her works have also been translated in several languages besides English, including French, German, Polish, Italian, Norwegian, Estonian, and Japanese. NЁЄ Dhomhnaill received the 1988 O’Shaughnessy Award for Poetry and the 1991 American Ireland Fund Literary Award. She served as visiting professor of Irish Studies at NYU and Boston College in 1999. Recently, she was named Ireland Professor of Poetry.
Nuala currently lives near Dublin with her husband and four children and is a regular broadcaster on Irish radio and television.
