Byres Road Book Festival: Niall O’Gallagher & Rody Gorman

28 September 2024 3:00 pm

Join two of the Crowned Bards of An Comunn Gàidhealach to discuss language, translation, poetic form and much more, featuring Rody Gorman’s groundbreaking multilingual translation of the medieval epic Buile Shuibhne (The Frenzy of Sweeney) and Niall O’Gallagher’s new anthology of Gaelic poems about Glasgow, Bàrdachd a’ Bhaile Mhòir.

Niall O’Gallagher is the author of three collections of poetry with CLÀR and of Fuaimean Gràidh / The Sounds of Love (Francis Boutle, 2023). A verse novella, Litrichean Plàighe, is in preparation. In 2019 he was named Bàrd Baile Ghlaschu, the City of Glasgow’s first Gaelic Poet Laureate.

Rody Gorman was born in Dublin in 1960 and lives in the Isle of Skye. He has published collections of poetry in English, Irish and Scottish Gaelic including Fax (1996), Flora From Lusitania (2005) and Zonda? Khamsin? Sharaav? Camanchaca? (2006) and Beartan Briste/Burstbrokenshroudloomdeeds (2011). Lorg Eile / Final Call, his latest New and Selected collection, was published in May 2022. His most recent publications are Sa Chnoc (CLÀR Publishers) and Sweeney: An Intertonguing (Fancis Boutle Publishers).