My feeling was: let the words carry their own particular burden, […] but let us, with the music, find a lighter way because while all of the poems confront a certain darkness, they always try to move back towards the light, like that Leonard Cohen line ‘There is a crack in everything / That’s how the light gets in.’ I think the music was trying to move the voice towards that light.
— Louis De Paor
Agus Rud Eile De
Louis De Paor
2010 • Cló Iar-Chonnachta
My feeling was: let the words carry their own particular burden, […] but let us, with the music, find a lighter way because while all of the poems confront a certain darkness, they always try to move back towards the light, like that Leonard Cohen line ‘There is a crack in everything / That’s how the light gets in.’ I think the music was trying to move the voice towards that light.
— Louis De Paor
Description
Agus Rud Eile De / And Another Thing atá mar theideal ar an naoú cnuasach filíochta le De Paor. Is saothar dátheangach é, a bhfuil dlúthdhiosca ag gabháil leis. Is iad Kevin Anderson, Biddy Jenkinson, Mary O’Donoghue agus an t-údar féin a rinne na haistriúcháin; is le Kathleen Furey an ealaín; agus le Ronan Browne an ceol.
Agus Rud Eile De /And Another Thing is De Paor’s ninth volume of poems. It is a bilingual text, with accompanying CD. Translations are by Kevin Anderson, Biddy Jenkinson and Mary O’Donoghue, with the author; art by Kathleen Furey; and music by Ronan Browne.
Excerpts
Interviews
Reviews
- Siobhan Long, The Irish Times
- William Ramoutar, Irish Culture and Customs
- Alan Titley, The Irish Times
Audio
Video
- Tedx Talks: TEDxGalway - Louis de Paor, Ronan Browne, Naisrin Elsafty - And Another Thing
- Tg4: Imeall – Louis de Paor & Rónán Browne
- Live Trad: Louis De Paor & Ronan Browne - Electric Picnic & Puball Gaeilge
- NUIG: Louis De Paor and Ronan Browne
- Louis de Paor Reads and discusses ‘Iníon Deichtine/Deichtine’s Daughter’
