FÉILE DÁNNERSTAG Tuairisc Dheiridh Tréimhse Gaeilge.pdf / DÁNNERSTAG PROJECT END OF FESTIVAL REPORT

Funded by Foras na Gaeilge, and directed by Professor Gisela Holfter and Dr. Sorcha de Brún, "Féile Dánnerstag" is a new and innovative poetry project by the Centre for Irish-German Studies and introduces German language poetry and its Irish language translations to a local, national, and international audience.Following in a long tradition of cultural and linguistic exchange between the German and Irish languages, poems in German and their Irish language translations were showcased on the first Thursday of every month on the Centre for Irish-German Studies website and were distributed on the social media of other institutions.The translations were undertaken by a range of scholars and translators. New and contemporary poems by a selection of prize-winning and wonderful German, Austrian and Swiss poets were presented in a multi-media format. Féile Dánnerstag/ the Dánnerstag Festival Project gratefully acknowledge the support of the German, Austrian and Swiss Embassies and the DAAD for this project.