Gúrú i gClúidíní
Cathal Ó Searcaigh
ISBN 9781905560127
Cló Iar Chonnachta
Is i sraitheanna atá na dánta sa leabhar curtha inár láthair, i gcosúlacht an dáin eipiciúil. San áireamh sa chnuasach seo tá ‘Oileán na Marbh’, dán a bhfuair Ó Searcaigh coimisiúnú air sa samhradh faoi na hoileáin bheaga amach ó chósta Thír Chonaill, áit ar cuireadh páistí a fuair bás sular baisteadh iad. Chuir Neil Martin ceol leis an dán seo agus chas Maighread Ní Dhomhnaill é, leis an West Ocean String Quartet, ag ceolchoirm i rith Scoil Gheimhridh Frankie Kennedy 2006. Tá an leabhar maisithe go healaíonta ag Ian Joyce.
The poems in the book are presented in sequences, tending towards the idea of an epic, and include ‘Oileán na Marbh’, a poem which Ó Searcaigh was commissioned to write last summer. It takes as its subject the small islands off the coast of Donegal where unbaptized children were buried. The poem was set to music by Neil Martin and performed by Maighread Ní Dhomhnaill and the West Ocean String Quartet during the Frankie Kennedy Winter School in December 2006.
The book features artwork by Ian Joyce
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