Agus Rud Eile De: And Another Thing

by Louis de Paor

Overview

(An Irish-language title) This collection is a collaboration between two different artists working in two different mediums. Kathleen Furey’s images of loss and separation provide a counterpoint to Louis de Paor’s poems which struggle constantly towards light and redemption. The man who speaks to us in the poems is on the brink of middle age. Behind him stand those who have gone before, ushering him on his way and shortening the road ahead. When he looks at those who are still young and innocent he finds it strange that they do not see the shadows that gather around them. Yet, the hope that creeps through the cracks in his heart cannot be stifled.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781905560967
Publisher:	Cló lar-Chonnacht
Publication date:	03/01/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	104
File size:	853 KB
Language:	Irish (obsolete: use GLE instead)

About the Author

Born in Cork in 1961, Louis de Paor has been involved with the contemporary renaissance of poetry in Irish since 1980, when he was first published in the poetry journal Innti, which he subsequently edited. A four-time winner of the Sean O Riordain / Oireachtas Award, the premier award for a new collection of poems in Irish, he lived in Australia from 1987 to 1996. His first bilingual collection, Aimsir Bhreicneach / Freckled Weather, was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Award for Literary Translation. He was also granted a Writer’s Fellowship by the Australia Council in 1995. He received the Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Award in 2000. His collection, Agus Rud Eile De / And Another Thing, was awarded the Oireachtas prize for the best collection of poems in Irish in 2003. He is Director of the Centre for Irish Studies at the National University of Ireland, Galway.

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(An Irish-language title) This collection is a collaboration between two different artists working in two different mediums. Kathleen Furey’s images of loss and separation provide a counterpoint to Louis de Paor’s poems which struggle constantly towards light and redemption. The man who speaks to us in the poems is on the brink of middle age. Behind him stand those who have gone before, ushering him on his way and shortening the road ahead. When he looks at those who are still young and innocent he finds it strange that they do not see the shadows that gather around them. Yet, the hope that creeps through the cracks in his heart cannot be stifled.