On the Poetry Programme on Sunday Olivia O'Leary meets Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, acclaimed Irish language poet and former Ireland Chair of Poetry, at her home in Dublin. Listen to the programme in full below:
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Born in Lancashire in 1952 to Irish parents, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill moved to Ireland when she was five years old and was brought up in the Dingle Gaeltacht and in Nenagh, County Tipperary. She writes all her poetry in Irish, which she calls ‘the language of my soul’.
Listen to Nuala reading her love poem Leaba Shíoda in the original Irish, and in an English translation by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin.
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She talks about her work and reads from her collection Northern Lights, a bilingual collection published in 2018 by Gallery Press. It consists of twenty-eight poems from across her career, and some new poems.
The Poetry Programme, RTÉ Radio 1, Sundays at 7.30pm - listen back here.
