The Irish poet Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Naughton Fellow and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Irish Poetry at the University of Notre Dame, will read from her work at4 p.m.Thursday (Nov. 2) in the Hesburgh Librarys Carey Auditorium on campus.
Among the most popular of the contemporary Irish poets, Ní Dhomhnaill writes in the Irish language.Her work draws upon themes of ancient Irish folklore and mythology, combined with contemporary themes of femininity, sexuality and culture.Her poetry has been translated into many different languages including English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Norwegian, Estonian, Danish, Czech, Armenian, Breton, Swedish and Japanese.
A native ofLancashire,England, born in 1952 to Irish physicians, Ní Dhomhnaill was sent to live with relatives in the Irish speaking areas of Counties Kerry andTipperaryat the age of 5. She studied English and Irish at University College Cork in the 1960s and in 1973 married Turkish geologist Dogan Leflef.She lived inTurkeyandHollandfor the next seven years, returning to Kerry in 1980, and published her first collection of poetry in Irish,An Dealg Droighin,the following year.
Works by Ní DhomhnaillincludeFéar Suaithinseach;Rogha Dánta/Selected PoemsPharaoh’s Daughter,Feis,The Astrakhan Cloak,andThe Water Horse.
Ní Dhomhnaills reading is sponsored by Notre Dames Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies.
* Contact: * _Sean OBrien, program coordinator at the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at 574.631.6250 or sobrien1@nd.edu
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