Born in Lancashire in 1952 to Irish parents, she was brought up in
the Dingle Gaeltacht and in Nenagh, Co. Tipperary, and was educated at
University College, Cork. Her collections of poetry include An Dealg
Droighin (1981), Féar Suaithinseach (1984), Rogha
Dánta/Selected Poems (1986, 1988, 1990), Pharaoh's Daughter
(1990), Feis (1991), The Astrakhan Cloak (1992), Spíonáin
is Róiseanna (1993), In the Heart of Europe: Poems for Bosnia
(1998) and Cead Aighnis (2000). The Water Horse appeared
with translations by Medbh McGuckian and Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
in 1999, and her work has also frequently been translated by the poets
Michael Hartnett, Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon and Michael Longley. In 1995,
she edited Jumping off Shadows: Selected Contemporary Irish Poets with
Greg Delanty, and she has written several children's plays. She received
Duais Sheáin Uí Ríordáin in 1982, 1984 and
1990, Duais Na Chomhairle Ealaíne um Filíochta in 1985 and
1988, Gradam an Oireachtais (1984), the Irish American Foundation O'Shaughnessy
Award for Poetry (1988), and the American Ireland Fund Literature Prize
(1991). She was writer in residence for Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County
Council in 1998, and she taught at New York University, Boston College
and Villanova University in the U.S. In 2001 she became Ireland Professor
of Poetry. She lives in Dublin.
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