Pádraig J. Daly

Pádraig J. Daly is a contemporary Irish poet. He was born near Dungarvan, County Waterford, and is now working as an Augustinian priest in Dublin serving as Parish Priest in Ballyboden. Educated at University College Dublin and Gregorian University, Rome, he has published several collections of poetry. Among them are The Last Dreamers: New & Selected Poems (1999) and The Other Sea (2003), as well as his translations from the Italian of Edoardo Sanguineti, Libretto (1999) and Paolo Ruffilli, Joy and Mourning (reissued 2007). Daly's translation was the first Sanguineti book to be rendered into English. His latest collection of poems is Clinging to the Myth (2007) in which he reflects on grief and personal bereavement and uses the voices of 18th century Gaelic poetry to respond to the challenges of a post-Christian Ireland. As well as broadcasting on RTÉ radio, some of Daly's works have been translated into Italian for broadcast on Italian radio.