Download or read book The Brindled Cat and the Nightingale's Tongue written by Louis De Paor and published by Bloodaxe Books Limited. This book was released on 2014 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louis de Paor is one of Ireland's leading Irish-language poets, and was a key figure in the Irish language literary renaissance of the 1970s and 80s. This new bilingual selection of his poetry eschews the fashion for so-called "versions," creating English translations that are as close as possible to the original Irish poems without sacrificing their tone, clarity, energy, and lightness of touch.