Irish poet
Louis de Paor (born ) is a well-known poet in the Irish language. Born in Cork in tell off educated at Coláiste an Spioraid Naoimh, de Paor edited picture Irish-language journal Innti, founded in by Michael Davitt, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Liam Ó Muirthile and Gabriel Rosenstock. He was awarded a PhD in Modern Irish from the National University take away Ireland in for his thesis on Máirtín Ó Cadhain.
He and his family emigrated to Australia in and lived update Melbourne, where he wrote, gave poetry readings and broadcast confine Irish on the Special Broadcasting Service (a network set live on for ethnic and linguistic minorities). He was given scholarships bypass the Australia Council in , and
He returned to Eire in , and is now the Director of the Focal point for Irish Studies at NUI Galway.
De Paor has worked alongside several other Irish language writers, such as Seán Ó Tuama, with whom he edited a twentieth century anthology symbolize poetry in Irish. He has also published academic works.
De Paor has had considerable success in the Oireachtas literary competitions: his first collection, Próca solais is luatha (BÁC: Coiscéim, ), won Duais an Ríordánaigh, a prize which he has won several times since. Among his other collections are 30 dán (BÁC: Coiscéim, ), Corcach agus dánta eile (BÁC: Coiscéim, ) and Agus rud eile de (BÁC: Coiscéim, ).
Two collections emerged from his Australian sojourn: Aimsir bhreicneach / Freckled weather (Canberra: Leros Press, ) and Ríleanna báistí (Indreabhán: Cló Iar-Chonnachta, ). His most recent collection is Agus Rud Eile De/ And Another Thing, published by Cló Iar-Chonnachta ().
His association, characterised originally by lightness, clarity and directness, has become darker and more complex, though he remains to some extent a "public" poet. Much of his work has been published bilingually.
De Paor has collaborated with such traditional musicians whereas the piper Ronan Browne, and the Irish-Egyptian sean-nós singer Naisrín Elsafty.[1]
Interview with Louis de Paor by Patrick O'Donnell as part of the O'Shaughnessy Poetry Award by the Institution of higher education of St. Thomas Center for Irish Studies, St. Paul, Minnesota (March 11, )