‘I was able to translate heartache into poetry’—Q&A with Caitríona Ní Chléirchín - Books Ireland

‘I was able to translate heartache into poetry’—Q&A with Caitríona Ní Chléirchín - Books Ireland

‘I was able to translate heartache into poetry’—Q&A with Caitríona Ní Chléirchín A book from your early days?  I loved the story of Eoghainín na n-Éan/ Eoineen of the Birds  from the Short stories of Padraic Pearse about the swallows returning every summer to the little boy Eoineen, until he himself has to go away to the land where it always summer. He has a special otherworldly gift of being able to talk to the swallows. Growing up in the count…