Byres Road Book Festival Gaelic Event at Hillhead Library – Niall O’Gallagher & Rody Gorman
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Free - ticket requiredThis event is run by an external organisation but takes place in a Glasgow Life venue. Glasgow Life does not take any responsibility for this event including the communication of any cancellations or rearrangements, or the ticket sales for this event.
- Dates and times
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28th Sep 2024
3:00PM - 4:00PM
- Age
- 18+ years
- Venue
Gaelic event.
Join two of the Crowned Bards of An Comunn Gàidhealach to discuss language, translation, poetic form and much more, featuring Rody Gorman’s groundbreaking multilingual translation of the medieval epic Buile Shuibhne (The Frenzy of Sweeney) and Niall O’Gallagher’s new anthology of Gaelic poems about Glasgow.
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Niall O'Gallagher is the author of three collections of poetry with CLÀR and of Fuaimean Gràidh / The Sounds of Love: Selected Poems (Francis Boutle, 2023). A verse novella, Litrichean Plàighe, is in preparation. In 2019 he was named Bàrd Baile Ghlaschu, the City of Glasgow's first Gaelic Poet Laureate.
Rody Gorman was born in Dublin in 1960 and lives in the Isle of Skye. He has published collections of poetry in English, Irish and Scottish Gaelic including Fax (1996), Flora From Lusitania (2005) and Zonda? Khamsin? Sharaav? Camanchaca? (2006) and Beartan Briste/Burstbrokenshroudloomdeeds (2011). Lorg Eile/Final Call, his latest New and Selected collection, was published in May 2022. His most recent publications are Sa Chnoc (CLÀR Publishers) and Sweeney: An Intertonguing (Fancis Boutle Publishers).
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