Programme 28: 15th March 2010

On tonight's programme we mark the centenary of the birth of the poet Máirtín Ó Direáin and we look at the writings of Galician writer Manuel Rivas.

Ó Direáin- Vincent is joined by Eoghan Ó hAnluain who is a former senior lecturer in Irish in UCD and who edited the collected poems of Máirtín Ó Direáin in 1980. He has also written introductions for a new cd and book of Ó Direáin’s poems which have been issued to mark the centenary of the poet’s birth.

The cd of the poet reading his poems is called 'Máirtín Ó Direáin- Dánta' and is available on Gael Linn records.
The new book is called 'Máirtín Ó Direáin- Na dánta' is published by Cló Iar Chonnachta and is available at www.cic.ie.
The translations of Ó Direáin's poems used in the programme were done by Douglas Sealy and Tomás Mac Síomóin and are available in their book, 'Selected Poems- Tacar Dánta', published by The Goldsmith Press.

Manuel Rivas, 'Books Burn Badly' .
Jonathan Dunne is the English language translator of 'Books Burn Badly' by Galician author Manuel Rivas. He talks to Vincent Woods about Manuel Rivas and about this new book.

'Books Burn Badly' is published by Harvill Secker.