Pearse Hutchinson

“Translation is the language of Europe”. Umberto Eco’s bon mot springs to mind when one opens this new translation into French and English of a wide selection of the Irish language poems of Pearse Hutchinson. From the wild Atlantic shores to the carillon-haunted plat pays, from 1920s Glasgow southwards to the sun-soaked stones of Catalonia and Galicia, this trilingual anthology casts its origins far and wide. Acclaimed academics Pádraig Ó Gormaile, Professor of French at the National Universi..