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Louis de Paor
Irish poet
Louis de Paor (born ) is a well-known poet in the Irish language. Born in Cork in and educated at Coláiste an Spioraid Naoimh, de Paor edited the Irish-language journal Innti, founded in by Michael Davitt, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Liam Ó Muirthile and Gabriel Rosenstock.
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He was awarded a PhD in Modern Irish from the National University of Ireland in for his thesis on Máirtín Ó Cadhain.
He and his family emigrated to Australia in and lived in Melbourne, where he wrote, gave poetry readings and broadcast in Irish on the Special Broadcasting Service (a network set up for ethnic and linguistic minorities).
He was given scholarships by the Australia Council in , and
He returned to Ireland in , and is now the Director of the Centre for Irish Studies at NUI Galway.
De Paor has worked alongside several other Irish language writers, such as Seán Ó Tuama, with whom he edited a twentieth century anthology of poetry in Irish.
He has also published academic works