Adventures in Poetry - Donal Og

Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's radio poetry archive with Adventures in Poetry – Donal Og.

Donal Og, an Irish song, translated by Lady Augusta Gregory of Coole Park, is a ballad that speaks of love and loss.

With poets and dreamers, and an old man who met WB Yeats and Lady Gregory as they gathered Kiltartan stories from the Irish speakers of Galway and Aran.

Presented by Peggy Reynolds.

Producer: Sara Davies.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2005.