The Irish Literary Times

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Is é Macdara Ó Fátharta atá i bpáirt Krapp sa dráma Téip Dheireanach Krapp le Beckett, Krapp an duine colgach uaigneach a chuir an grá i leataobh ar mhaithe lena ghairm mar scríbhneoir. Aistriúchán Gaeilge úrnua le Gabriel Rosenstock don chompántas Mouth on Fire, an compántas a chuireann roimhe saothar Bheckett a chur ar fáil go slachtmhar do chách, i mBéarla agus i nGaeilge. Aisteoir de chuid Amharclann na Mainistreach é Macdara agus páirteanna éagsúla aige i scannáin agus i gcláir theilifíse. 

When I was a schoolchild we had various Irish poets and poems in Irish to brush up on, from Máire Mhac an tSaoi to Máirtín Ó Direáin.  One of the Irish language poets’ names seemed to hold a bit more panache (a 1970s word associated with perfume you’d give your mother), than the others, that of Gabriel Rosenstock.  Just his name seemed a bit more cool, in the days before we really knew that typically Irish names were also cool.  Anyway, it turns out he was and remains quite cool.  Apart from his huge output as author or translator of