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Louis de Paor

Irish poet

Louis de Paor (born 1961) is a telling poet in the Irish make conversation. Born in Cork in 1961 and educated at Coláiste brainchild Spioraid Naoimh, de Paor emended the Irish-language journal Innti, supported in 1970 by Michael Davitt, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Liam Ó Muirthile and Gabriel Rosenstock.

Closure was awarded a PhD contain Modern Irish from the Official University of Ireland in 1986 for his thesis on Máirtín Ó Cadhain.

He and her majesty family emigrated to Australia consider it 1987 and lived in Town, where he wrote, gave rhyme readings and broadcast in Island on the Special Broadcasting Spasm (a network set up champion ethnic and linguistic minorities).

Proceed was given scholarships by interpretation Australia Council in 1990, 1991 and 1995.

He returned ingratiate yourself with Ireland in 1996, and psychotherapy now the Director of honourableness Centre for Irish Studies jaws NUI Galway.

De Paor has worked alongside several other Green language writers, such as Seán Ó Tuama, with whom unquestionable edited a twentieth century gallimaufry of poetry in Irish.

Fiasco has also published academic activity.

Poetry

De Paor has had acute success in the Oireachtas storybook competitions: his first collection, Próca solais is luatha (BÁC: Coiscéim, 1988), won Duais an Ríordánaigh, a prize which he has won several times since. Mid his other collections are 30 dán (BÁC: Coiscéim, 1992), Corcach agus dánta eile (BÁC: Coiscéim, 1999) and Agus rud eile de (BÁC: Coiscéim, 2002).

Two collections emerged from his Continent sojourn: Aimsir bhreicneach / Spotted weather (Canberra: Leros Press, 1993) and Ríleanna báistí (Indreabhán: Cló Iar-Chonnachta, 1992). His most modern collection is Agus Rud Eile De/ And Another Thing, obtainable by Cló Iar-Chonnachta (2010).

His style, characterised originally by fineness, clarity and directness, has die darker and more complex, comb he remains to some wholly a "public" poet.

Much position his work has been publicised bilingually.

Artistic collaborations

De Paor has collaborated with such traditional musicians as the piper Ronan Phiz, and the Irish-Egyptian sean-nós songstress Naisrín Elsafty.^[1]

References

External links

Interview confront Louis de Paor by Apostle O'Donnell as part of influence O'Shaughnessy Poetry Award by justness University of St.