The Nobel Prize Juan Ramón Jiménez was very familiar with the writers of the Irish revival. His reading of Yeats is well-documented, and in a hand-written list for the years 1917-1920 he also notes the four major writers of the early years of the century in Ireland: A.E., Yeats, Lady Gregory and Synge. Juan Ramón Jiménez confesses that at the beginning of the century the poets who most profoundly influenced him were Irish. This interest is also reflected in his and his wife Zenobia’s translation of Synge's Riders to the Sea into Spanish in 1920. After 1916 his translations of poetry included works by A.E. and Yeats, as he admits in a letter to Luis Cernuda.
According to Jiménez, Riders to the Sea left its mark on García Lorca's Bodas de sangre. And Ian Gibson goes on to state that this play may not had been written had not Lorca read Synge’s play.
Several Irish literary works were translated into Spanish. Apart fom Synge's play, Alfonso Donado's translation (pseudonym of Dámaso Alonso) of Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, rendered as El artista adolescente and published in Madrid in 1926 and soon afterwards William Butler Yeats.
The authors mentioned above are not the only Irish writers translated into Spanish in book form, but only those, with the exception of Joyce, who were related in some way to the Irish Literary Revival.
Antonio R. de Toro is professor of English Philology at the Universidade da Coruña. He is director of Amergin University Institute of Research in Irish Studies. Vicente Risco (Orense, 1884-1963), influenced by James Joyce’s work, was one of the most influential and complex figures of Galician literature.
Screening and presentation by the Producer of the film Tomás Cimadevilla.
A comedy set in 1977 in which a prestigious, anti-francoist playwright tries to film a drama of social condemnation starring a downcast folksinger who was a former child prodigy. A lying producer with a lot of cheek produces the film. Inexperience, ambition, the lack of means and the director’s love-hate relationship with the star mean the shooting descends into madness.
Screening and presentation by the Producer of the film Tomás Cimadevilla.
Claudia is an attractive thirty-five year old woman that has a goodlooking husband who worships her, a handsome son whom she adores and a lover who is even better looking and whom she adores even more. Life could not get any better. But Pablo, her lover, has decided that he has had enough of being no more than that and has left her for another woman. The heroine, who doesn’t take NO for an answer, is not prepared to let him slip through her fingers. With the help of her sister Mónica, and a spot of emotional and financial blackmail, she arranges what would seem to be a simple plan to get him back. But things do not go as planned and Pablo finds himself in the middle of three manipulative and strong women who will do whatever it takes to get what they want!
Screening and presentation by the Producer of the film Tomás Cimadevilla.
Jorge is thirty and thinks his life can’t possibly get any worse. He finds his work depressing and his girlfriend leaves him when he asks her to marry him. But things can always get worse and to see the truth in this he only has to look at his friends. Ramón can’t decide what gets at him most; his wives crazy ideas or his lost battle against baldness. Gonzalo has been studying law for as long as he’s been looking for a girlfriend. Carlos hopes to become an important actor but has got no further than a minor part in the teleshop. Miguel is a policeman and the father of a family but his dream is to be a singersongwriter; that is if his wife lets him. The only one who seems to have his life under control is Antonio but this doesn’t mean much as he has just come out of prison. The brilliant solution for changing their lives is to set up the football team they had in their youth and finally win something in life even if it’s only the Football 7 trophy.
2.5 million spectators watched this movie in cinemas.
