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Louis de Paor is one of Ireland's leading Irish-language poets.
This new selection is drawn from two other books, Cu¿pla Siamach an Ama / The Siamese Twins of Time and Grä fiar / Crooked Love. His narrative skill and inventiveness come together in the sequence Lä dä raibh/One day, which follows a day in the life of an imaginary village in the west of Ireland where living and dead, real and unreal, collide. Adapted for a dual-language radio feature with music by Dana Lyn and broadcast on RTE¿ Lyric FM and Raidiö na Gael-tachta in 2021, this can be heard while reading in either language by scanning QR codes printed in the book.
About the author
Louis de Paor was born in Cork in 1961 and and was a key figure in the Irish language literary renaissance of the 1980s and 90s, editing the influential Irish-language journal Innti for a time. He spent time as a lecturer in Irish at University College Cork and Thomond College, Limerick, before combining teaching with radio work in Australia from 1987 to 1996. He was Jefferson Smurfit Distinguished Fellow at the University of St Louis-Missouri in 2002 and received the Charles Fanning medal from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in 2009. He was appointed Director of the Centre for Irish Studies at NUI Galway in 2000. His dual-language selection
The Brindled Cat and the Nightingale's Tongue was published in 2014, and his dual language anthology
Leabhar na hAthghabhála / Poems of Repossession in 2016. His latest dual-langauge selection is
Crooked Love / Grá fiar (Bloodaxe Books / Cló Iar-Chonnacht, 2022). He lives in Oughterard, Co. Galway.
Summary
Louis de Paor is one of Ireland's leading Irish-language poets. This new dual-language selection is drawn from his collections Cúpla Siamach an Ama/The Siamese Twins of Time and Grá fiar/Crooked Love, and includes the sequence 'Lá dá raibh/One day', adapted for a dual-language radio feature with music by Dana Lyn broadcast on RTÉ in 2021.
