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Grá fiar

By Louis de Paor

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Louis de Paor is one of Ireland's leading Irish-language poets. Crooked Love is a new selection drawn from his earlier collections Cpla Siamach an Ama / The Siamese Twins of Time and Gr fiar / Crooked Love. Central to the book is the narrative sequence L d raibh / One day, which follows a day in an imaginary village in the west of Ireland where the living and dead, the real and unreal, collide. The collection uniquely integrates poetry with a dual-language radio feature accompanied by music, accessible via QR codes, enhancing the reading experience in either Irish or English.
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This collection is ideal for readers interested in contemporary Irish-language poetry, narrative verse, and those who appreciate poetic innovation that bridges tradition and modern multimedia expression.

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.

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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, Cpla Siamach an Ama / The Siamese Twins of Time and Gr fiar / Crooked Love. His narrative skill and inventiveness come together in the sequence L d 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 RTÉ Lyric FM and Raidió na Gaeltachta in 2021, this can be heard while reading in either language by scanning QR codes printed in the book.

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Critics praise de Paor's narrative wit and inventive poetic style, noting his skill in blending common life imagery with transformative, imaginative elements. The poetry is lauded for its inclusiveness, touching on both intimate and public spheres with a Chagallian generosity. Reviewers highlight the tension and intensity in his work, which avoids soft romanticism in favour of a wire-taut, vivid lyricism. The poems distil character and emotion through tightly woven images, appealing through their sensory richness and intimate moments.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781780375946

Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 25 February 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bloodaxe Books Ltd

Edition: Bilingual ‘facing page’ edition

Contributors:

Translated by Kevin Anderson
Translated by Biddy Jenkinson
Translated by Louis de Paor

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 13.0mm

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 160

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Arts & Culture Louis de Paor Non-Fiction Poetry

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 hAthghabhla / Poems of Repossession in 2016. His latest dual-langauge selection is Crooked Love / Gr fiar (Bloodaxe Books / Cl Iar-Chonnacht, 2022). He lives in Oughterard, Co. Galway.