Eiléan Ní Chuilleanain was born 1942 in Cork and is an Emeritus Fellow of Trinity College  Dublin  where she has taught  researched and written on Renaissance literature and translation  since 1966  with her husband Macdara Woods  the late Leland Bardwell and the late Pearse Hutchinson  she is a founder and (since 1975) co-editor of the Irish poetry journal Cyphers