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Translate a Poem from a language of your choice to be in with a chance to win a prize of €200

{ Organised by NUI Galway }

Schools Translation Competition

This competition is open to any secondary school students in Ireland. Students will translate a poem from a language of their choice (French, German, Italian, Irish or Spanish) and a winner will be selected for each language.

Translations will be assessed on their individuality and creativity as well as their use of language.

A prize of €200 will be offered for each language. Winners will be announced in February 2015.

The poetry selected for translation is poetry published in the nineteenth century in Ireland. A prize giving ceremony will be held in NUI Galway to present the winners with their prizes. The deadline for submissions is Friday, 16 January 2015. Complete application forms must be sent by that date to translationcomp2015@gmail.com.

In Association With

  • Moore Institute
  • NUI Galway
  • Irish Research Council

Results

A translation competition for secondary school students in Ireland was held in early 2015. Students were asked to translate a poem from a language of their choice (French, German, Italian, Irish or Spanish) and a winner was selected for each language. Translations were assessed on their individuality and creativity as well as their use of language. The poetry selected for translation was poetry published in the nineteenth century in Ireland. A prize giving ceremony for the winners was held in NUI Galway. The winners were:

French

Clare Healy – Mount Sackville Secondary School, Chapelizod, Dublin 20 (5th Year)

Highly Commended:

  • Siúbhan O’Donnell, St. Andrew’s College, Dublin (6th Year)
  • Seán McGuane, Castleknock Community College, Castleknock, Dublin 15 (6th Year)
  • Stephen Barry, St. Flannan’s College, Ennis, Co. Clare (Transition Year)
  • Daniel James, St. Andrew’s College, Dublin (3rd Year)

German

Ada Anna Jarosz – Mercy Secondary School, Newtownsmith, Galway (Transition Year)

Highly Commended:

  • Orlaith Connolly, Mount Mercy College, Cork (5th Year)
  • Niamh O’Connor, Mount Mercy College, Cork (6th Year)

Irish

Danielle Ní Shúilleabháin – Gaelcholáiste Mhuire AG, An Mhainistir Thuaidh, Corcaigh (6th Year)

Highly Commended:

  • Niamh Nic Gabhann, Gaelcholáiste Mhuire AG, An Mhainistir Thuaidh, Corcaigh (6th Year)

Italian

Pádraig O’Donovan – Midleton CBS, Co. Cork (6th Year)

Highly Commended:

  • Theresa Addo, Sancta Maria College, Ballyroan, Dublin 16 (5th Year)
  • Francesca Onorato, Presentation Secondary School, Thurles, Co. Tipperary (5th Year)
  • Monika Daverda, Carlow Vocational School (6th Year)

Spanish

Shane Sweeney – Castleknock Community College, Castleknock, Dublin 15 (5th Year)

Highly Commended:

  • Connor Sinnamon, St. Andrew’s College, Dublin (6th Year)
  • Oliver Eagleton, St. Andrew’s College, Dublin (6th Year)
  • Laura Fitzgerald, Loreto College Foxrock, Dublin 18 (6th Year)

With many thanks to all the competition judges: Dr. Mel Boland, José Brownrigg-Gleeson, Dr. Deirdre Byrnes, Dr. Morwena Denis, Dr. Catherine Emerson, Dr. Mike Hodder, Jeannine Jud, Dr. Michele Milan, Dr. Lesa Ní Mhunghaile, Prof. Catherine O’Brien, Dr. Anne O’Connor, Dr. Aine Ryan and Dr. Lorna Shaughnessy.

The Poems

Translators are the shadow heroes of literature, the often forgotten instruments that make it possible for different cultures to talk to one another, who have enabled us to understand that we all, from every part of the world, live in one world.

Paul Auster