Bücher von Cathal Poirteir

Cathal Poirteir is an author, journalist and PPI-awardwinning broadcaster. He has worked with RTE Radio 1 for over thirty years, producing programmes on a variety of topics from current affairs and politics to drama, music and literature, with a particular focus on Irish language programming. He has produced a number of CDs about Irish literature, including Blasket Island Reflections, a series on the Blasket Island writers; The Appeals of the Midnight Court, a documentary about the poet Brian Merriman; and Traditional Tales of Wonder, a selection of folktales and legends from Donegal storyteller Mici Sheain Neill. He is the author of The Great Irish Famine, and Famine Voices and their Irish-language counterparts Gneithe den Ghorta and Glortha on Ghorta. He is the editor of two collections - the short story collection Scealta san Aer and the poetry collection Eigse san Aer.