The Boys of Bluehill
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
2015 • The Gallery Press
I usually find that while I don’t plan a collection around a given theme, one emerges as I go along. In this case it was clear, from quite early on, that the collection was going to have a musical core, and that that was connected with my sister Máire, who has been dead for twenty-five years. She played first violin in the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and I hear her in the whole of the orchestral repertoire.
— Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
The Boys of Bluehill
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
2015 • The Gallery Press
I usually find that while I don’t plan a collection around a given theme, one emerges as I go along. In this case it was clear, from quite early on, that the collection was going to have a musical core, and that that was connected with my sister Máire, who has been dead for twenty-five years. She played first violin in the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and I hear her in the whole of the orchestral repertoire.
— Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
Description
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin is a consummate poet whose revelatory imagery and sensibility are unrivalled in depth and refinement. The Boys of Bluehill displays all of the insight and mystery that characterize her best work. These qualities make the most accessible of poems deeply resonant
and the most complex ones worth many readings. The themes of music, religion, art, language, and nature unwind a fable of being and perception which is unmistakably hers. From the memory-laden ‘An Information’ and the visionary Skelligs poems, through the haunting ‘Who Were Those Travellers,’ on to the ars poetica of ‘Dream Shine’ and ‘The Words Collide,’ this volume continually draws us in to its own extraordinary perspectives.
Excerpts
Interviews
- Forward Arts Foundation: Forward Arts Foundation in Conversation with Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
- TCD Provost & President’s Annual Review: Interview with Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
Prizes & Awards
Reviews
- Aingeal Clare, The Guardian
- John McAuliffe, The Irish Times
- Bethany W. Pope, Wales Arts Review
- Thomas McCarthy, Dublin Review of Books
- Dave Coates, Dave Poems Blog
Audio
- RTÉ: Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin Discusses and Reads From The Boys of Bluehill
- RTÉ: Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin - Who Are the Readers of Poetry?
Video
- UCD Library Special Collections: A Reading by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Ireland Professor of Poetry, at UCD
- UCD Library Special Collections: Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin Reading her Poem 'Small'
- Ó Bhéal: Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin Reading her Poem 'The Distance'
- WFU Press: Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin Reading, Wake Forest University (Part 1)
- WFU Press: Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin Reading, Wake Forest University (Part 2)
- WFU Press: Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin Reading at Wake Forest University (Part 3)
