Irish poet and ND visiting professor Ní Dhomhnaill to give poetry reading | News | Notre Dame News | University of Notre Dame Skip To Content Skip To Navigation Skip To Search University of Notre Dame Notre Dame News Experts ND in the News Subscribe About Us Home Contact Search Menu Home › News › Irish poet and ND visiting professor Ní Dhomhnaill to give poetry reading Irish poet and ND visiting professor Ní Dhomhnaill to give poetry reading Published: October 30, 2006 Author: Michael O. Garvey 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 _ TopicID: 19824 Home Experts ND in the News Subscribe About Us For the Media Contact Office of Public Affairs and Communications Notre Dame News 500 Grace Hall Notre Dame, IN 46556 USA Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube Pinterest © 2022 University of Notre Dame Search Mobile App News Events Visit Accessibility Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube LinkedIn