Derry O'Sullivan is an Irish poet, writing in the Irish language

Irish language

Irish , also known as Irish Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family, originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish people. Irish is now spoken as a first language by a minority of Irish people, as well as being a second language of a larger proportion of...

. He has been living in Paris for many years and is a teacher of English at the Sorbonne

Sorbonne

The Sorbonne is an edifice of the Latin Quarter, in Paris, France, which has been the historical house of the former University of Paris...

 (University of Paris), at ISEP and at the Catholic university, l'Institut catholique. He has won four literary awards from the Irish Language Academy, Oireachtas na Gaeilge . His publisher is COISCEIM in Dublin. His works have been translated into English and French and several of them can be consulted on the Harvard Library Hollis catalogue. He has published one collection in French in Quebec. His friend the Irish artist Reginald Gray

Reginald Gray (artist)

Reginald Gray is a portrait artist born in Dublin in 1930. He studied at The National College of Art and then moved to London, becoming part of the School of London led by Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud and Frank Auerbach. In 1960, he painted a portrait of Bacon which now hangs in the permanent...

 has designed the covers for a number of O'Sullivan's books.

External links

• http://www.irishwriters-online.com/