{"product_id":"let-the-hare-sit-lig-don-ngiorria-sui-paperback","title":"Let the Hare Sit \/ Lig don nGiorria Suí - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCeaití Ní Bheildiúin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003ePaddy Bushe\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLet the Hare Sit \/ Lig don nGiorria Suí \u003c\/em\u003eis a significant event in Irish poetry publishing - the first extended selection of poems by Ceaití Ní Bheildiúin in a dual-language format. A summary of a journey to date, the book is also an opportunity for those with less than fluent Irish to approach the original poems in the company of their English translations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMuch-admired as \"one of the most innovative and interesting voices in contemporary Irish language poetry\" (Doireann Ní Ghríofa), Ní Bheildiúin is the author of a rich, myth-informed, yet entirely earthed body of work in which she can describe a school of beached whales as \"huge, songless shapes\" and address Mount Brandon with such simplicity and directness (\"I am too long hardened. Brandon, \/ have you hardened? And your heart?\") that we almost expect to hear the response.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeftly and faithfully rendered in English by Paddy Bushe, these selected poems are, among other things, an invitation to \"stop Dead still Without spilling a drop \/ From the jug of your heart ...\" - the kind of invitation few of us can afford to pass up on.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In these exquisitely tuned lyrics she brings us to a place that is both real and imagined; a lost domain, fabulous and yet strangely familiar\"-Cathal Ó Searcaigh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 130\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.31 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 10, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42120921546887,"sku":"9781915629050","price":20.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/78857c926929bb863f8e0b06ce40e341.webp?v=1732550115","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/let-the-hare-sit-lig-don-ngiorria-sui-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}