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 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-language selection, Crooked Love / Grá fiar, was published by Bloodaxe Books with Cló Iar-Chonnacht in 2022. He lives in Oughterard, Co. Galway.

• Clár |ContentsIDon gcéad ghlúin a mhairfidh tréis8 | For the first generation to survivebhás na Gaeilgethe death of IrishCaora finiúna12 | GrapesFuarán16 | FountainIascaire is ea m’athair le ceart20 | My father is a fisherman by rightCloigíní24 | BellsLuascáin28 | SwingsIIMulti-tasking34 | Multi-taskingHataí38 | Hats offBóithre42 | Chaos theoryMatamaitic46 | MathematicsLánúintí48 | CouplesBratacha52 | FlagsIníon Deichtine54 | Deichtine’s daughterIIILá dá raibh…56 | One day…IVLuck102 | LuckAr Oileán Bruny108 | On Bruny IslandGarbhach, Inis Cara112 | Garbhach, Inis CaraAesthetics118 | AestheticsMise agus an leabhar i gCafé na Beatha126 | The Book and I in Café de la VieVMacalla134 | EchoesPluaiseanna136 | CavernsAr cuairt142 | Visiting Rósanna146 | RosesTéada150 | StringsPaidir Ameiriceánach154 | American prayerNótaí157 | Notes

There is a great deal of narrative play and wit. The imagery is taken from common life as observed at first hand mostly, but transformed by a delight in resemblance and transformation… there is a Chagallian inclusiveness and generosity in the poems that is more than its incidents. The poetry can turn to darkness and the public world as well as to the intimate village or street.

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 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-language selection, Crooked Love / Grá fiar, was published by Bloodaxe Books with Cló Iar-Chonnacht in 2022. He lives in Oughterard, Co. Galway.

• Clár |ContentsIDon gcéad ghlúin a mhairfidh tréis8 | For the first generation to survivebhás na Gaeilgethe death of IrishCaora finiúna12 | GrapesFuarán16 | FountainIascaire is ea m’athair le ceart20 | My father is a fisherman by rightCloigíní24 | BellsLuascáin28 | SwingsIIMulti-tasking34 | Multi-taskingHataí38 | Hats offBóithre42 | Chaos theoryMatamaitic46 | MathematicsLánúintí48 | CouplesBratacha52 | FlagsIníon Deichtine54 | Deichtine’s daughterIIILá dá raibh…56 | One day…IVLuck102 | LuckAr Oileán Bruny108 | On Bruny IslandGarbhach, Inis Cara112 | Garbhach, Inis CaraAesthetics118 | AestheticsMise agus an leabhar i gCafé na Beatha126 | The Book and I in Café de la VieVMacalla134 | EchoesPluaiseanna136 | CavernsAr cuairt142 | Visiting Rósanna146 | RosesTéada150 | StringsPaidir Ameiriceánach154 | American prayerNótaí157 | Notes

There is a great deal of narrative play and wit. The imagery is taken from common life as observed at first hand mostly, but transformed by a delight in resemblance and transformation… there is a Chagallian inclusiveness and generosity in the poems that is more than its incidents. The poetry can turn to darkness and the public world as well as to the intimate village or street.

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 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-language selection, Crooked Love / Grá fiar, was published by Bloodaxe Books with Cló Iar-Chonnacht in 2022. He lives in Oughterard, Co. Galway.

• Clár |ContentsIDon gcéad ghlúin a mhairfidh tréis8 | For the first generation to survivebhás na Gaeilgethe death of IrishCaora finiúna12 | GrapesFuarán16 | FountainIascaire is ea m’athair le ceart20 | My father is a fisherman by rightCloigíní24 | BellsLuascáin28 | SwingsIIMulti-tasking34 | Multi-taskingHataí38 | Hats offBóithre42 | Chaos theoryMatamaitic46 | MathematicsLánúintí48 | CouplesBratacha52 | FlagsIníon Deichtine54 | Deichtine’s daughterIIILá dá raibh…56 | One day…IVLuck102 | LuckAr Oileán Bruny108 | On Bruny IslandGarbhach, Inis Cara112 | Garbhach, Inis CaraAesthetics118 | AestheticsMise agus an leabhar i gCafé na Beatha126 | The Book and I in Café de la VieVMacalla134 | EchoesPluaiseanna136 | CavernsAr cuairt142 | Visiting Rósanna146 | RosesTéada150 | StringsPaidir Ameiriceánach154 | American prayerNótaí157 | Notes

There is a great deal of narrative play and wit. The imagery is taken from common life as observed at first hand mostly, but transformed by a delight in resemblance and transformation… there is a Chagallian inclusiveness and generosity in the poems that is more than its incidents. The poetry can turn to darkness and the public world as well as to the intimate village or street.