Shakespeare: saviour of the Irish language? A pioneering project by Dr Sorcha de Brún

“I was inspired by a couple of different Irish language writers and poets saying to me, ‘no, you cannot translate or bring across iambic pentameter from English to Irish’, and my response was ‘oh I think I can!’”

A pioneering project by Dr Sorcha de Brún, UL lecturer in Modern Irish Language and Literature, has led to the translation of William Shakespeare's sonnets into Irish using iambic pentameter.

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