GhnoÌthaigh Louis buncheÌim sa Ghaeilge agus sa LeÌann DuÌchais i gColaÌiste na hOllscoile, Corcaigh agus dochtuÌireacht ar ghearrsceÌalaiÌocht MhaÌirtiÌn UiÌ Chadhain ina dhiaidh sin. Bhuaigh a chnuasach filiÌochta ProÌca Solais is Luatha (CoisceÌim, 1988) Duais an RiÌordaÌnaigh san Oireachtas, agus taÌ an duais sin buaite aige triÌ huaire oÌ shin le cnuasaigh eÌagsuÌla, ina measc 30 DaÌn (CoisceÌim, 1992). D'fhoilsigh CloÌ Iar-Chonnacht teÌip agus leabhraÌn de rogha daÌ chuid filiÌochta, RiÌleanna BaÌistiÌ (1992). Is iad Ag Greadadh Bas sa Reilig (CloÌ Iar- Chonnacht, 2005), CuÌpla Siamach an Ama (CoisceÌim, 2006), Agus Rud Eile De (CloÌ Iar-Chonnacht, 2010) agus GraÌ Fiar (CoisceÌim, 2016) na cnuasaigh is deÌanaiÌ leis. ScriÌobh Louis staideÌar ar ghneÌithe siÌceolaiÌochta de shaothar MhaÌirtiÌn UiÌ Chadhain, Faoin mBlaoisc Bheag Sin (CoisceÌim, 1991). I bpaÌirt le SeaÌn OÌ Tuama rinneadh rogha d’fhiliÌocht Ghaeilge an fichiuÌ haois a fhoilsiuÌ in CoisceÌim na hAoise seo (CoisceÌim, 1991). Chuir seÌ eagar ar rogha daÌnta Michael Davitt: Freacnairc Mhearcair: Rogha DaÌnta/The Oomph of Quicksilver: Selected Poems (CloÌ Ollscoil ChorcaiÌ, 2000). Chnuasaigh seÌ daÌnta comhaimseartha le filiÌ eÌagsuÌla i Leabhar na hAthghabhaÌla/Poems of Repossession (Bloodaxe Books/CloÌ Iar-Chonnacht, 2016), ina dtugtar aistriuÌchaÌin BheÌarla agus reÌamhraÌ leÌirmhiÌnithe.
Louis de Paor — poet, teacher and editor — was born in Cork. He currently lives in Galway and is Director of the Centre for Irish Studies at the National University of Ireland, Galway.
He lived in Australia from 1987 until 1996 where he lectured at the University of Sydney and presented an Irish radio programme in Melbourne. He received scholarships from the Austalian Council in 1990, 1991, 1995. In 2000, he was awarded the prestigious Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Award, the first poet writing in Irish to do so. His style, characterised originally by lightness, clarity and directness, has become darker and more complex, though he remains to some extent a ‘public’ poet. Much of his work has been published bilingually.