Synopsis of Revista de Estudios Irlandeses
Enrique Alda, at least in his translations of Caitlín Maude (1941–1982)—in closing the Irish-English-Spanish triangle—and of Mary O’Malley, which are fundamentally triangulated as well, since she harbors Gaelic and its music, its rhythms, deep within the English language in which she writes, has followed a Greek procedure: that of those who considered language as a veil that protects from the brilliance of things, and poetry as a tear in that fabric crafted by each particular tongue. The immediate and sustained fluidity of his versions is strikingly evident, fulfilling the poetic need not of those who seek to avoid mistakes, but of those who naturally take risks.
