Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh

Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh is an Irishlanguage poet. Her books include Péacadh, (Coiscéim 2008), Tost agus Allagar (Coiscéim, 2016) and a bilingual collection The Coast Road (The Gallery Press, 2016). Cois Life published her translations from the French of Andrée Chedid as part of the ‘File ar Fhile’ series in 2019. She is a recipient of the Michael Hartnett Award and the Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Award for Poetry. A graduate of NUI Galway, where she earned a PhD in Irish Studies. Now based in Cork city, she lectures in Modern Irish at UCC.

Poem from The Coast Road (The Gallery Press, 2016)

Translated from the Irish by Justin Quinn

Reproduced by kind permission of the author and publisher