This podcast was created as a blueprint:
an introduction to a future production
of Aeschylus’ PERSIANS
in a new Irish-language translation
by Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill.

That production is coming to life at the
Abbey Theatre in 2024.
For more information, click here.

nuala_headshot.webp.jpeg — Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill is widely regarded as the greatest living poet in the Irish language.
Growing up in the Gaeltachts of West Kerry and Tipperary, she studied Irish and English at University College Cork, where she later taught those subjects.
Ní Dhomhnaill published her first collection of poetry in Irish, *An Dealg Droighin* (1981). Her works include poetry collections, children’s plays, screenplays, anthologies, articles, reviews and essays, including *Selected Poems*/*Rogha Dánta* (1986); *Pharaoh's Daughter* (1990), *The Astrakhan Cloak* (1992), *The Water Horse* (1999), and *The Fifty Minute Mermaid* (2007). *Selected Essays* appeared in 2005.
Ní Dhomhnaill was awarded the Ireland Chair of Poetry from 2001-2004. She is the recipient of numerous other awards, including the Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Award for Poetry, the American Ireland Fund Literary Award, and the Seán Ó Ríordáin Award, which she won for all four of her Irish poetry collections.
Ní Dhomhnaill’s work has been translated into more than eight languages, including English, by Seamus Heaney, John Montague and Paul Muldoon, among others. Her poetry features prominently in the *Field Day Anthology* and *The Penguin Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry*. She was the second holder of the Ireland Chair of Poetry at Trinity College Dublin, and held chairs as well at University College Dublin and Queen's University Belfast. She has previously held the Burns Chair of Irish Studies at Boston College and the Humboldt Chair of Irish Studies at Villanova University.

For more about Nuala, please visit The Gallery Press.

Director Conor Hanratty has an MA in Greek Theatre Performance from the University of London. From 2002-2013 he was a regular participant of the Intensive Summer Course organised by the European Network for Research & Documentation of Ancient Greek Drama at the Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus.
As well as his time spent with Japanese director Yukio Ninagawa, he trained with Rough Magic, the National Theatre, and at UCLA.
He is also the creator and host of The Hamlet Podcast.

To learn more about Conor, please visit conorhanratty.com.

Participants

Conor Hanratty

Director, Presenter

Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill

Translator

Bríd Ní Neachtain, Owen Roe, Caitríona Ní Mhurchu,
Marie Mullen, Iarla O’Lionáird

Performers

Oliver Taplin, Edith Hall,
Lydia Koniordou, Guy Cools

Contributors

Mel Mercier

Signature Music

Maura O’Keeffe

Producer

This podcast was created as a blueprint: an introduction to a future production of Aeschylus’ PERSIANS in a new Irish-language translation by Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill.

That production is coming to life at the Abbey Theatre in 2024. For more information, click here.