Poet
Nuala Ní Chonchúir
Nuala Ní Chonchúir
(Ireland, 1970)
© Nuala Ní Chonchúir
Biography
Ní Chonchúir is one of a younger generation of Irish poets who look more to Europe for influences than to Britain, whether those influences are absorbed directly or through an older Irish conduit such as Gerry Murphy.
Ní Chonchúir writes in both Irish and English. Not since Michael Hartnett has there been an Irish poet who works with such facility in both languages. She has also translated from Irish the poems of the late Caithlín Maude.
Of the poems in Tattoo: Tatú she writes:
“These poems are what I would call ‘versions’ of each other. It is impossible to literally translate a poem and still find a poem in the translation with sense and meaning intact. So I have transposed these poems into English (or Irish) as a version of the original, and hopefully, in the process, have come up with a new poem.”
© Patrick Cotter
BibliographyPoetry
Molly’s Daughter (a section in the trio anthology DIVAS!), Arlen House, Galway, 2003
Tattoo: Tatú, Arlen House, Galway, 2007
Fiction
The Wind Across the Grass, Arlen House, Galway, 2004
To the World of Men, Welcome, Arlen House, Galway, 2005
Links
http://www.nualanichonchuir.com/home.html official homepage on which there are many more links.
Poems
Poems of Nuala Ní Chonchúir
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Partners
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