sentences:  The same year he travelled again to Spain, this time to Barcelona, where he learnt the Catalan and Galician languages, and got to know Catalan poets such as Salvador Espriu and Carles Riba.With the British poet P. J. Kavanagh, he organised a reading of Catalan poetry in the British Institute.He went home to Ireland in 1957 but returned to Barcelona in 1961, and continued to support Catalan poets.