Cathal O'Searcaigh

About The Author

Born in Donegal in 1956, Cathal O'Searcaigh lives at the foot of Mount Errigal. He has written many volumes of poetry, won the Irish Times' Irish language literature prize in 2001, and his work has been translated into English by Seamus Heaney as well as into other languages including French, Italian, Russian, Danish and Japanese. He is a member of Irish arts fellowship, Aosdana.

Books by Cathal O'Searcaigh

Light on Distant Hills

A Memoir

By Cathal O'Searcaigh
LIGHT ON DISTANT HILLS is poet Cathal O'Searcaigh's memoir of his childhood in rural Donegal. A remarkably lyrical telling by one of Ireland's favourite poets, this memoir is Cathal's first work of prose in English. Cathal grew up in the 1950s and 60s on the harsh peaty acres of a Donegal hill fa...
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