Baile do Bhí – A Home that Was

by Simon Ó Faoláin, Irish/English

Letterpress with DVD incl.

ISBM: 978–0–9552113–6–2

160 copies

€46

Sa tsraith dánta seo tá an tigh mar ar chaith Simon Ó Faoláin a óige, an baile do bhí, claochlaithe go hiomlán ag an dúlra. Cuireann íomhánna Dominique Lieb agus scannán Zoe Uí Fhaoláin beocht na físe le machnamh an fhile.

In this series of poems the house where the writer Simon Ó Faoláin spent his youth has been totally transformed by nature. Dominique Lieb´s images and Zoe Uí Fhaoláin´s film add visual life to this meditation on a home that was.

Cuirfear fáilte roimh chách in An Lab ag 7.30in ar Aoine 30ú Bealtaine nuair a sheolfaidh an sár-scríbhneoir Biddy JenkinsonBaile do Bhí/A Home that Was, leabhar ilmheánach nua le dánta ó Simon Ó Faoláin, scannán le Zoe Uí Fhaoláin agus pictiúirí le Dominique Lieb, foilsithe ag Púca Press. Beidh ceol le Mark Crickard ann chomh maith.

All will be welcome in An Lab at 7.30pm on Friday 30th May when the distinguished writer Biddy Jenkinson will launch Baile do Bhí/A Home that Was, a new multi-media book featuring poems by Simon Ó Faoláin, film by Zoe Uí Fhaoláin and pictures by Dominique Lieb, published by Púca Press. There will also be music from Mark Crickard.30.

Bealtaine/May 2014, 7.30 p.m. An Lab, Dingle / Daingean Uí Chúis.