Sweeney: An Intertonguing – Rody Gorman

Thur 30 Oct

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  • Times/Performances:

    7pm – An Taigh Ceilidh

     

    Also on Thursday 30 Oct:
    8.15pm:  The Edge of the World (1937)

     

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In this hugely ambitious multilingual work poet Rody Gorman recasts the medieval Irish text Buile Shuibhne – ‘The Frenzy of Sweeney’ – into English, Irish and Scottish Gaelic.

In Gorman’s brilliant reinvention, we are brought into a human, linguistic and poetic world that contains multitudes – The Irish Times

An utterly extraordinary work … The variety, energy and invention is dazzling – Robert Macfarlane

A milestone and a work of exceptional originality based on the Gaelic tradition – Meg Bateman

… a masterly sequence of poems – Peter MacKay (Scotland’s Makar)