Eoghan O Tuairisc Author

Author - Eoghan O Tuairisc (1919-1982), born Eugene Rutherford Louis Watters in Ballinasloe, Co. Galway, built a reputation as an innovative stylist in Irish and English. O Tuairisc's work includes poetry, drama, short stories, novels, essays and lectures in both languages. A primary school teacher, writer of pantomimes, modernist poet and inaugural Aosdana member, he was always breaking literary moulds. Selected works: L'Attaque (1962), Lux Aeterna (1964) The Week-End of Dermot and Grace (1964), De Luain (1966) Translator - Micheal O hAodha was born in Galway and grew up between the west of Ireland and the north of England. He is a prolific translator as well as an Irish-language poet and writer with a particular interest in the Irish-speaking minority of the west of Ireland, Travellers and Irish emigrants. Two of his most recent acclaimed translations include This Road of Mine (Lilliput, 2020) and Exiles (Parthian, 2020).