The launch will take place on Fri 31st Match at 6.30pm in Quay Books, 11 Sarsfield Street. Bilingual writer Mike MacDomhnaill from Newcastle West, co. Limerick will officially launch the book. All are welcome and refreshments will be provided.

I Am Lewy is the story of Loodeen Winders, six year old boy growing up in the turbulent early 1920s in a market town in the west of Ireland. This is the first appearance in English of the frank funny voice of Lewy, a vital witness of his place and time.

The author Eoghan Ó Tuairisc (1919-1982) built a reputation as an innovative stylist in Irish and English. His work includes poetry, drama, short stories, novels, essays and lectures in both languages. A primary school teacher, writer of pantomimes, modernist poet and a member of Aosdána, he was always breaking literary moulds.

The translator Micheal Ó hAodha was born in Galway. He is a prolific translator as well as an Irish language poet and writer. Two of his most recent acclaimed translations include This Road of Mine (Lilliput, 2020) and Exiles (Parthian, 2020). He currently lives in Limerick and works in the University of Limerick library.

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