{"product_id":"crooked-love-gra-fiar-dual-language-irish-english-edition-paperback","title":"Crooked Love \/ Grá Fiar: Dual Language Irish-English Edition - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLouis de Paor\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLouis de Paor is one of Ireland's leading Irish-language poets. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis new selection is drawn from two other books, \u003ci\u003eCúpla Siamach an Ama \/ The Siamese Twins of Time\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGrá fiar \/ Crooked Love\u003c\/i\u003e. His narrative skill and inventiveness come together in the sequence \u003ci\u003eLá dá raibh\/One day\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLouis 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Brindled Cat and the Nightingale's Tongue\u003c\/i\u003e was published in 2014, and his dual language anthology \u003ci\u003eLeabhar na hAthghabhála \/ Poems of Repossession\u003c\/i\u003e in 2016. His latest dual-langauge selection is \u003ci\u003eCrooked Love \/ Grá fiar \u003c\/i\u003e(Bloodaxe Books \/ Cló Iar-Chonnacht, 2022). He lives in Oughterard, Co. Galway.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 9.1 x 6.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 03, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52728619827507,"sku":"9781780375946","price":25.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/ZXd0MWRXbHluMndpT0JicDRKbUUzdz09.webp?v=1763787648","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/crooked-love-gra-fiar-dual-language-irish-english-edition-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}