Durrow man translates Heartstopper – the queer love story everyone is falling for. – into Irish.

Tadhg Mac Dhonnagáin (foilsitheoir) James Kavanagh (a sheol an leabhar), Eoin Mc Evoy (aistritheoir)

It was a full house in An Siopa Leabhar, 6 Harcourt Street, Dublin 2 on Thursday evening for the launch of Heartstopper – the queer love story everyone is falling for.

Written by Alice Oseman, the series is a global hit on Netflix and the books are available in more than 36 languages.

And now, thanks to the superb translation by Eoin McEvoy, the first book in the best-selling series of graphic novels is also available as Gaeilge.

From Durrow, Eoin is a translations and creative writing lecturer in the School of Irish, Celtic Studies and Folklore, UCD.

Source: https://www.offalyexpress.ie/

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