A Poetic Licence Earned
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Poet Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin talks about a time when books were banned in Ireland.
And how her mother, distinguished children's writer Eilís Dillon, had a cupboard of them.
“It was, of course, nonsensical that they were banned," says Eiléan, winner of China’s prestigious 1573 International Poetry Award.
Produced and presented by Martina Devlin.
Eiléan's Collected Poems available from the Gallery Press website here: https://www.gallerypress.com/authors/m-to-n/eilean-ni-chuilleanain/
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