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355 pages ; 25 cm |
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| Note |
Includes index. |
| Language |
Certain poems are in Irish Gaelic, all of which have been translated. Other poems were originally in Gaelic, but are only included in the anthology in English. |
| Contents |
Daithi O. Bruadair (c. 1625-98) -- 'To see the art of poetry lost' -- (i) 'Seirbhiseach seirgthe iogair sronach seasc' -- (ii) 'A shrewish, barren, bony, nosey servant' -- (iii) A Glass of Beer -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- The Description of an Irish Feast -- Verses Said to be Written on the Union -- 'Behold! A Proof of Irish Sense!' -- A Character, Panegyric, and Description of the Legion Club -- Holyhead. September 25, 1727 -- On the Words 'Brother Protestants and Fellow Christians' -- The Fable of the Bitches -- An Excellent New Ballad -- The Lady's Dressing Room -- A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed -- Stella's Birthday -- Phyllis -- An Elegy on the Supposed Death of Mr. Partridge, the Almanac Maker -- A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General -- Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift, D. S. P. D. -- On the Day of Judgement -- After Aodhagan O. Rathaille (c. 1675-1729). After the Irish of Egan O'Rahilly / Eavan Boland. The Poet Egan O'Rahilly, Homesick in Old Age / Thomas Kinsella -- Esther Johnson (1681-1728) -- To Dr. Swift on his Birthday, November 30, 1721 -- Oliver Goldsmith (1728-74) -- The Deserted Village -- The Description of an Author's Bed-chamber -- The Haunch of Venison -- An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog -- Eibhlin Dubh Ni Chonaill (fl. 1770) -- Caoineadh Airt Ui Laoghaire -- The Lament for Art O'Leary -- Brian Merriman (1749-1805) -- The Midnight Court -- James Clarence Mangan (1803-49) -- O'Hussey's Ode to the Maguire -- Siberia -- Lament Over the Ruins of the Abbey of Teach Molaga -- Samuel Ferguson (1810-86) -- Lament Over the Ruins of the Abbey of Timoleague -- The Welshmen of Tirawley -- Jane Francesca Elgee -- A Supplication -- Thomas Caulfield Irwin (1823-92) -- Swift -- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) -- The Ballad Of Reading Gaol -- Augusta, Lady Gregory (1852-1932) -- A Woman's Sonnets (1-12) -- W. B. Yeats (1865-1939) -- The Cold Heaven -- Easter 1916 -- On a Political Prisoner -- Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen -- Death -- Parnell's Funeral -- Cuchulain Comforted -- The Apparitions -- Politics -- Susan L. Mitchell (1866-1926) -- Ode to the British Empire -- George Moore Becomes the Priest of Aphrodite -- George William Russell (AE) (1867-1935) -- On Behalf of Some Irishmen Not Followers of Tradition -- Nora Hopper (1871-1906) -- The Wind Among The Reeds -- J. M. Synge (1871-1909) -- The Passing of the Shee -- The Curse -- Danny -- The Mergency Man -- Oliver St. John Gogarty (1878-1957) -- Ode of Welcome -- James Joyce (1882-1941) -- Gas from a Burner -- The Song of the Cheerful (but slightly sarcastic) Jaysus -- Austin Clarke (1896-1974) -- Night and Morning -- The Envy of Poor Lovers -- Three Poems About Children -- Orphide -- Patrick Kavanagh (1904-67) -- The Great Hunger -- A Wreath for Tom Moore's Statue -- The Hospital -- Brian Coffey (1905-94) -- Death of Hektor -- Samuel Beckett (1906-89) -- Saint-Lo -- Mort de A. D. -- Louis Macneice (1907-63) -- 'The sunlight on the garden' -- Meeting Point -- from Autumn Journal (section 16) -- John Hewitt (1907-87) -- The Bloody Brae -- The Colony -- Nineteen Sixteen, or The Terrible Beauty -- Denis Delvlin (1908-59) -- The Tomb of Michael Collins -- Lough Derg -- Arthur Osborne (1909) -- from Is That Love You're Making? -- Maurice Craig (1919) -- Ballad to a Traditional Refrain -- Eugene Watters/Eoghan O. Tuairisc (1925-82) -- from The Weekend of Dermot and Grace (Sunday) -- Dies Irae -- Thomas Kinsella (1928) -- Downstream -- Nightwalker -- from A Technical Supplement -- One Fond Embrace -- John Montague (1929) -- All Legendary Obstacles -- A New Siege -- The Wild Dog Rose -- James Simmons (1933) -- Stefano Remembers -- Claudy -- Seamus Heaney (1939) -- Requiem for the Croppies -- The Tollund Man -- In Memoriam Francis Ledwidge -- Casualty -- From the Frontier of Writing -- Two Lorries -- Michael Longley (1939) -- In Memory of Gerard Dillon -- Wounds -- The Man of Two Sorrows -- Eva Braun -- The Pleiades -- Seamus Deane (1940) -- Reading Paradise Lost in Protestant Ulster 1984 -- Eilean Ni Chuilleanain (1941) -- Lucina schynning in silence of the night ... -- Early Recollections -- Dead Fly -- Trinity New Library -- Derek Mahon (1941) -- Death in Bangor -- Courtyards in Delft -- The Spow Party -- A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford -- At the Chelsea Arts Club -- Paul Durcan (1944) -- The Kilfenora Teaboy -- The Levite and his Concubine at Gibeah -- Eavan Boland (1944) -- The War Horse -- Listen. This is the Noise of Myth -- Hugh Maxton (1947) -- Mourning Becomes the Law -- Medbh McGuckian (1950) -- On Ballycastle Beach -- Marconi's Cottage -- The Albert Chain -- Ballads and Party Songs. Come All You Warriors ... The Ould Orange Flute. Dolly's Brae. The Croppy Boy. Me an' Me Da / W. F. Marshall. On the Death of the Rev. Robert Traill, D. D. The Ballad of William Bloat / Raymond Calvert. |
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English poetry -- Irish authors.
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Irish poetry -- Translations into English.
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Ireland -- Poetry.
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English poetry -- Irish authors.
(OCoLC)fst00912309
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Irish poetry. (OCoLC)fst00979051
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Ireland. (OCoLC)fst01205427
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
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Translations. (OCoLC)fst01423791
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Poetry.
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| Added Author |
McCormack, W. J.
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| ISBN |
0460876759 |
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9780460876759 |
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