Published on 30 June 2024
ISBN: 978-1-915108-21-0
Deasaichte le Niall O’Gallagher / Edited by Niall O'Gallagher
With thanks to the Gaelic Books Council for a grant towards the proiduction of this book.
Bheir Bàrdachd a’ Bhaile Mhòir: 15 Glasgow Poems còmhla
bàrdachd Ghàidhlig Ghlaschu bhon 18mh chun an 21mh linn, le
eadar-theangachaidhean. Cuir aithne air baile gun bhainne ach le
deoch làidir “a’ cur mhnathan is dhaoin’ às an cèill”, caorann a tha
na dhachaigh do phailteas mheanbh-chreutairean agus seann
taigh-deilbh far an do “thilg sinn sgalldaireachd mar eucoraich
Chicago”. Tha gach fear de na còig dàin deug seo mar stad air
cuairt fho-shlighe Ghlaschu, a’ fosgladh sheallaidhean ùra aig gach
ceann-uidhe, “a’ cur nar cuimhne gu bheil pailteas fhathast san
t-saoghal”.
Bàrdachd a’ Bhaile Mhòir: 15 Glasgow Poems brings together the
Gaelic poetry of Scotland’s largest city from the 17th to the 21st
Centuries, with translations. Discover a city without milk, but plenty
of liquor “that makes women and men mad as Hell”, a rowan tree
that hosts a multitude of tiny creatures, and an old cinema where
viewers “spat insults with the best of the Chicago mobsters”.
Each of these fifteen poems is like a stop on an underground tour
of Glasgow, opening up new perspectives at every destination,
“a reassurance of plenty”.
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