Author(s): Louis de Paor

Dual Language

Louis de Paor is one of Ireland’s leading Irish-language poets. This new selection is drawn from two other books, Cúpla Siamach an Ama / The Siamese Twins of Time and Grá fiar / Crooked Love. His narrative skill and inventiveness come together in the sequence Lá dá 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 Gael-tachta in 2021, this can be heard while reading in either language by scanning QR codes printed in the book.