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Cathal Ó Searcaigh


Life

1956- ; b. Mín A’Leá [Meenala], Gort a’Choirce [Gortahork], in the Donegal Gaeltacht, son of farmers; ed.

POEMS BY CATHAL Ó SEARCAIGH -

locally in national and vocational schools; NIHE, Limerick (French, Irish, and Russian); worked for a year in London; read Celtic Studies at Maynooth, 1977; joined RTÉ, working on Aisling Gheal; contrib. to Comhar, Feasta, and Scríobh; issued Tuirlingt (1978) with Gabriel Rosenstock and Bill Doyle; returned to Gaeltacht to farm; poetry collections include Miontraigéide Cathrach (1978); with Gabriel Rosenstock; Súile Shuibhne (1983); Suíbhne (1987); An Bealach ’na Bhaile (1991), followed by a bilingual edn.

with translations by thirteen poets including Seamus Heaney, John F. Deane, Greagóir Ó Duill, and others (Bealach ’na Bhaile, 1993), winner of Seán Ó Riordáin prize and Duais Bhord na Gaeilge;

 

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