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CONTENTS Introduction 26 A Note To The Second Edition 40 part one: Gaelic translated ANONYMOUS (8th century, attributed to St Patrick. Translated by Kuno Meyer.) The Deer’s Cry 45 ANONYMOUS (7th-i3th century. Translated by Frank O’Connor and Brendan Kennelly.) 48 FRANK O’CONNOR (1903-66). Well-known short story writer, novelist, biographer, critic and translator. Was imprisoned during the Civil War of 1922-3, and his experiences during this period inspired his book Guests of the Nation. Was director of the Abbey Theatre until 1939, when he retired to devote his time to writing. My Story 48 The Hermit’s Song 48 The Viking Terror 50 A Prayer for Recollection 51 The Priest Rediscovers His Psalm-Book 52 The Son of the King of Moy 54 The Sweetness of Nature J4 A Love-Song 55 Storm at Sea 55 God’s Praises 57 Winter 57 The Blackbird by Belfast Lough 57 Reconciliation 58 The Praise of Fionn 59 Oisin 60 Caoilte 61 The Old Woman of Beare 62 The King of Connacht 64 Liadain 65 1 Shall Not Die 66 Jealousy 67 The Body’s Speech 67 ANONYMOUS (i7th-i9th century) Kilcash 69 - 5 “
CONTENTS EGAN O’RAHILLY (1670-1726). A Kerryman. One of the last of the native Irish aristocratic poets. The Irish Texts Society published The Poems of Egan CTILahilly with introduction, translation, notes, and indexes edited by the Rev, Patrick S. Dineen, m.a., and Tadhg O’Donoghue. A splendid collection. A Grey Eye Weeping 71 Brightness of Brightness 72 A Sleepless Night 73 Last Lines 74 ANONYMOUS Hope 76 ANONYMOUS The Questions of Ethne Alba. Translated by James Carney 77 JAMES CARNEY (1914- ). Professor at Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. Among his many works are Studies in Early Irish Literature and History (1956); The Problem of Si Patrick (1961); and Medieval Irish Lyrics (1967). A distinguished scholar and translator. EILEEN O’LEARY (18th century). Wife of Art O’Leary at whose death she composed her moving lament. Lived in Cork. The Lament for Art O’Leary 78 ANONYMOUS The Lament for Yellow-haired Donough 87 ANTHONY RAFTERY (1784-1835). This blind poet of County Mayo led a wandering life around Gort, County Galway. Douglas Hyde, first president of the Irish Republic, collected his poems from the oral versions of the people of the West. Mary Hynes 89 BRYAN MERRYMAN (1747-1805). Born in County Clare, the son of a small landowner. An accomplished violinist and teacher of mathematics. Died in Limerick. ‘The Midnight Court’ was written in 1780-81. The Midnight Court 91 - 6 -
CONTENTS part two: Anglo-Irish JONATHAN SWIFT (1667-1745). The famous Dean of St Patrick’s. Author of Gulliver s Travels and other works. Valiant defender of the rights of the Dublin poor. Powerful satirist. Stella’s Birthday OLIVER GOLDSMITH (1728-74). Bom in County Longford and died in London. Educated, like Swift, at Trinity College, Dublin, where he was a contemporary of Edmund Burke. Friend of Dr Johnson. His work includes The Vicar of Wakefield , a novel; The Deserted Village, a poem; and She Stoops to Conquer, a comedy that is still fresh and very funny. Stanzas: On Woman The Village JOHN PHILPOT CURRAN (1750-1817). A wit and orator, bom in Newmarket, County Cork, and died in London. ‘The Deserter’s Meditation’ was based on an accidental meeting with a deserting soldier. The Deserter’s Meditation WILLIAM DRENNAN (1754-1820). A Belfast man; strong supporter of the Society of United Irishmen, whose original manifesto he wrote. He published Fugitive Pieces in Belfast, 1815, and a translation of Sophocles in 1817. The Wake of William Orr RICHARD ALFRED MILLIKEN (1767-1815). Bom and died in County Cork. It is said that Garibaldi’s soldiers sang Milliken’s ‘The Groves of Blarney’ as a marching song on some of their expeditions. The Groves of Blarney THOMAS MOORE (1779-1852). Bom in Dublin, where he attended Trinity College. Friend of Robert Emmet, but on his mother’s advice he abandoned revolutionary activities. Was popular in London where he sang his songs set to Irish airs. A friend of Byron’s, whose letters and journals he edited in 1830. He is well known for his Irish Melodies. I Saw From the Beach At the Mid Hour of Night SIR AUBREY DE VERE (1788-1846). Bom in Ireland, de Vere’s best work is in his sonnets, described by Words- 121 123 123 125 126 128 131 131 - 7 -
CONTENTS SAMUEL FERGUSON (1810-86). Bom in Belfast; died in Dublin. Educated at Trinity College. Called to the Irish Batin 1838, and to the Inner Bat in 1839. In 1867 he became fltst Deputy Keeper of the Records of Ireland. Travelled on the Continent in 1845-6. Was an expert on archaeology, art, history and architecture. Knighthood conferred on him in 1878. President of the Royal Irish Academy in 1881. A poet of indefatigable industry and stamina, and a thoroughly admirable man. See The Poems of Samuel Ferguson, edited by Padraic Colum (Allen Figgis, Dublin, 1963). The Burial of King Cormac Cashel of Munster Cean Dubh Deelish The Lapful of Nuts The Fair Hills of Ireland The Fairy Thorn Deirdre’s Lament for the Sons of Usnach The Lark in the Clear Air Lament for the Death of Thomas Davis The Forging of the Anchor The Vengeance of the Welshmen of Tirawley AUBREY DE VERB (1814-1902). A hard-working poet but a bit stuffy. Intimate friend of Carlyle, Tennyson and Wordsworth. A prolific writer. Song The Year of Sorrow The Combat at the Ford, from The Foray of Queen Meave THOMAS DAVIS (1814-45). Founded the newspaper, The Nation, in 1842, with John Blake Dillon and Charles Gavin Duffy. A leader of the Young Ireland political party. His Poems and Literary and Historical Essays were published in 1846. Lament for the Death of Eoghan Ruadh O’Neill WILLIAM McBURNEY (dates unknown). A contributor to The Nation, founded by Thomas Davis. The Croppy Boy ARTHUR G. GEOGHEGAN (1810-89). Bom in Dublin; died in London. Lived in England for thirty years. After Aughrim 190 !93 194 195 196 197 199 201 201 203 207 218 218 222 227 229 231 - 10 -
CONTENTS LADY WILDE (1820-96). Mother of Oscar Wilde. Well- known for her Ancient Legends of Ireland. She wrote political verse for The Nation, signing herself‘Speranza’. The Famine Year JOHN KELLS INGRAM (1823-1907). Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, 1846. Wrote his famous ‘The Memory of the Dead’ while still a student. The Memory of the Dead MICHAEL JOSEPH McCANN (1824-83). Bom in Galway; died in London. Teacher and journalist. Travelled in the United States. O’Donnell Aboo THOMAS CAULFIELD IRWIN (1823-92). Privately educated. Knew ancient and modem languages. Contributed frequently to the Dublin University Magazine. Was known towards die end of his life as a very mad poet. Mad or not, there is no doubt about his talent. Four sonnets WILLIAM ALLINGHAM (1824-89). Bom in Bally- shannon, County Donegal. Important works are Poems, 1850; Lawrence Bloomfield in Ireland, 1864; Blackberries, 1896. His Diaries are very lively and show Allingham’s intimacy with the Pre-Raphaelites. The Winding Banks of Erne Tenants at Will, from Lawrence Bloomfield in Ireland THOMAS D’ARCY McGEE (1825-68). Had to leave Ireland because of his ‘Young Ireland’ activities. Went to Canada where he became Minister for Agriculture. He was eventually assassinated. His Collected Poems appeared in 1869. The Celts JOHN TODHUNTER (1839-1916). Taught English at Alexandra College, Dublin, but settled in London, where he helped to found the Irish Literary Society. A good dramatist. Like Ferguson, he turned to Irish mythology for inspiration. Some of his poetry, especially Three Irish Bardic Tales, 1896, is dramatic and moving. Aghadoe A Moment 232 233 237 239 241 244 253 255 256 - XI -
CONTENTS The Fate of the Sons of Usna from The First Duan: The Coming of Deirdrd, from Three Irish Bardic Tales 256 EDWARD DOWDEN (1843-19x5). Professor of English in. Trinity College, Dublin. Mainly important for his criti- cism, especially Shakespeare: His Mind and Art (1874). In the Cathedral Close 262 JOHN BOYLE O’REILLY (1844-90). A prominent Fenian, he was sentenced to twenty years’ penal servitude in Australia but escaped to America, where in 1876 he became part owner of the Pilot, a Boston newspaper. His work includes Songs, -Legends and ballads, In Bohemia, and Moondyne (a novel). A White Rose 264 ARTHUR O’SHAUGHNESSY (1844-81). Worked in the British Museum as a transcriber; was transferred to the Natural History Department where he worked until he died. Ode 265 EMILY LAWLESS (1845-1913). Her poems, With the Wild Geese, were published in 1902 and were popular. She also wrote many novels including Hurrish (1886) and Grania (1892). After Aughrim 266 ALFRED PERCEVAL GRAVES (1846-1931). Born in Dublin; died in Wales. Educated at Trinity College, Dublin. Inspector of Schools in Ireland 1875-1910. Published work includes Father O’Flynn and other Ballads (1889), and The Irish Poems of Albert Perceval Graves (1908). Edited many collections of Irish literature and music, and was editor of Everyman’s Irish Library, secretary and president of the Irish Literary Society. One of the liveliest balladeers of all. Father O’Flynn 267 WILLIAM LARMINIE (1850-99). A graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, he worked in London for many years but retired to Dublin in 1887. His work includes Glanlua and other Poems, 1889; and Fand and Moytura, 1892. The Nameless Doon From Fand The Sword of Tethra, from Moytura 269 269 273 - 12 -
CONTENTS JOHN KEEGAN CASEY (1846-70). Imprisoned as a Fenian at the age of twenty and died as a result of brutal treatment. One of the best of the Fenian poets. The Rising of the Moon a.d. 1798 275 FANNY PARNELL (1854-82). Sister of Charles Stewart Parnell. Wrote for The Nation. Very active in politics. After Death 277 OSCAR WILDE (1854-1900). Famous wit, playwright and poet. Wrote The ballad of Reading Gaol in an English prison. Died in Paris in relative obscurity. From The Ballad of Reading Gaol 278 T. W. ROLLESTON (1857-1920). Poet and critic. Secretary of the Irish Literary Society in London. With Stopford Brooke, he edited the Treasury of Irish Poetry (1900). Clonmacnoise 286 JOHN SYNGE (1871-1909). Graduate of Trinity College, Dublin. Famous playwright of the Irish Literary Revival. His Collected Poems, edited by Robin Skelton, were published in 1962. Prelude 287 On an Anniversary 287 Queens 287 Beg-Innish 288 To the Oaks of Glencree 289 The Curse x 290 In Kerry 290 On a Birthday 290 A Question 291 THOMAS MACDONAGH (1878-1916). Born in Tipperary; executed in Dublin, Easter 1916. Teacher, critic and poet; lecturer in University College, Dublin. Literature in Ireland is an important book. Poetical Works appeared in 1916. See also The 1916 Poets (Allen Figgis, Dublin, 196}; 1980). John-John 292 The Yellow Bittern 294 PATRICK PEARSE (1879-1916). Executed, Easter 1916. Teacher, poet, critic, propagandist, orator, dramatist. Wrote in both Irish and English. Founded St Enda’s School, -13-
CONTENTS Dublin. His Collected Works appeared in 1918. See also The Best ofPearse (Mercier Press, 1967); Short Stories of Padraic Pearse (Mercier Press, 1968); and The 1916 Poets (Allen . Figgis, Dublin, 1963; 1980). I am Ireland 295 Renunciation 295 The Mother 296 The Fool 297 The Rebel 298 Christmas 1915 300 JOSEPH PLUNKETT (1887-1916). Executed, Easter 1916. Strong mystical strain in his poetry. See The Poems of Joseph Mary Plunkett, 1916; also The 1916 Poets (Allen Figgis, Dublin, 1963; 1980). I See His Blood upon the Rose 301 My Lady Has the Grace of Death 301 FRANCIS LEDWIDGE (1891-1917). Bom in County Meath. Killed in action in Flanders, 31 July 1917. Lord Dunsany helped to make him known as a poet. His Complete Poems has gone through many editions. The Wife of Llew June The Coming Poet Thomas McDonagh The Blackbirds Ireland part three: Yeats and After W. B. YEATS (1865-1939). Yeats always tried to ‘hammer his thoughts into a unity’, and his works should be read as a whole. See especially his Collected Poems (first edition 1933 and numerous reprints thereafter); Collected Plays (1953); Mythologies (1959); Autobiographies (1961); Explorations (1962); and Essays and Introductions (1961). To Ireland in the Coming Times 309 September 1913 310 The Statues 311 GEORGE RUSSELL (AE) (1867-1935). Poet, painter, mystic. Helped to found the Irish Agricultural Cooperative Movement. Referred to by W. R. Rodgers as ‘the Sophocles of Dublin’. See Homeward: Songs by the Way (1894); Collected 3°3 303 3°4 304 305 306 -14-
CONTENTS Poems (i^i});House of the Titans (1934). Amystic withagood deal of commonsense. On Behalf of Some Irishmen Not Followers of Tradition 313 OLIVER ST JOHN GOGARTY (1878-1957). A fine lyric poet who appears as Buck Mulligan in Ulysses. Famous talker and wit. See his Collected Poems (1954). A lively biography by Ulick O’Connor appeared in 1964. Ringsend 315 JOSEPH CAMPBELL (1879-1944). Bom in Belfast. Director of Studies at Fordham University, New York, but returned to Ireland, where he died. An early experimenter with Imagism. See The Mountdiny Singer (1909), Irishry (1913), Earth of Cualann (1917) and Complete Poems (1963). Days 316 SEAMAS O’SULLIVAN (1879-1958). His best work deals with Dublin, its half-lit backstreets and alleyways. Founded the Dublin Magazine in 1923 and edited it untii he died in 1958. His Collected Poems appeared in 1940. Nelson Street 317 PADRAIC COLUM (1881-1972). A very prolific poet. A pioneer in the Abbey Theatre tradition of realistic drama and a good novelist. See The Poet’s Circuits: Collected Poems of Ireland (i960); The Flying Swans (1957), a novel; and Three Plays (1963). Plougher 318 JAMES JOYCE (1882-1941). One of the finest modern novelists. Has had enormous influence on younger writers. ‘Gas from a Burner’ is from Pomes Penyeach (Paris, 1932; Faber 1966). It is interesting to compare Joyce’s satire with that of Swift. Both writers are fierce, lucid masters of the art. Gas from a Burner 320 JAMES STEPHENS (1882-1950). A writer of great charm. His Crock of Gold is a classic. Among his poems, Insurrections (1909), Songs from the Clay (1915), Strict Joy (1931), and Kings and the Moon (1938) are very attractive. His Collected Poems , first published in 1926, is still in print. There is a popular image of Stephens as an effervescent leprechaun. - 15 -
CONTENTS In fact, he knew a great deal of suffering and was totally devoted to his art. A Glass of Beer 3 2 5 ’ AUSTIN CLARKE (1896-1974). Poet, novelist, dramatist, and critic. Collected Poems published in 1974. Martha Blake 326 The Straying Student 328 MONK GIBBON (1896- ). Bom in Dublin. Educated at St Columba’s College, Dublin, and Keble College, Oxford. Won the Silver Medal for Poetry at the Tailteann Games, 1928. Member of the Irish Academy of Letters. Publications include Tie Tremulous String (1926); For Daws to Peck At (1929); Seventeen Sonnets (1932); and This Insubstantial Pageant (1 Collected Poems, 1951). Prose works include Tie Seals (1935), Mount Ida (1948) and Inglorious Soldier (1968). Is a thoughtful, prolific writer of both verse and prose. Lives in Sandycove, Dublin. Salt 329 F. R. HIGGINS (1896-1941). An accomplished lyric poet who influenced and was influenced by Yeats. Published books include Island Blood (1925) and The Gap of Brightness (1940). A director of the Abbey Theatre from 1935 to 1941. His early death cut short a promising career as a poet. Father and Son R. N. D. WILSON (1899-1933). Enemies PATRICK MACDONOGH (1902-61). His single substantial collection is One Landscape Still (1958) and it shows MacDonogh’s fine sense of drama and rhythm. Experimented successfully with the rhythm-patterns of Gaelic poetry. At his best, a very moving lyric poet. The Widow of Drynam EWART MILNE (1903- ). Has been a schoolteacher, sailor, and labourer. Of his many volumes of poetry, A Garland for the Green (1962) best shows his merits and defects as a poet. Some poems are marred by prosaic rhythms, but his best work is dramatic, richly imaged and direct. Ballad for an Orphan - 16 - 330 331 332 334
CONTENTS C. DAY LEWIS (1904-72). Related on his mother’s side to Oliver Goldsmith. Educated at Sherborne School and Wadham College, Oxford. As well as poetry, he has written several books for children, some detective novels under the pseudonym of Nicholas Blake and a number of critical works. A Fellow and Vice-President of the Royal Society of Literature, he was created C.B.E. in 1950 and was appointed Poet Laureate in 1968. A selection of his poems, published in The Penguin Poets series (revised edn 1969), vividly illustrates the range of his talent. Remembering Con Markievicz PADRAIC FALLON (1905- ). Bom in Athenry, County Galway. For many years a civil servant with the Irish Customs and Excise. His excellent Poems was published by Dolmen Press in 1974. Several verse plays, written for Radio Eireann, were praised by many critics. Some of these were later performed on the B.B.C. Third Programme and, in translation, in Germany and Holland. A successful play, The Seventh Step, was staged
in Dublin in 1945. Field Observation BRYAN GUINNESS (1905- ). The Pose in the Tree (1964) is Guinness’ most impressive collection. He has also written novels, children’s stories and plays. By Loch Etive PATRICK KAVANAGH (1905-67). Born in Monaghan, he lived in Dublin for nearly thirty years. See Collected Poems (1964) and Tarry Flynn (1964). Many things Kavanagh wrote have an unmistakable ring of greatness. Shancoduff Prelude Lough Derg SAMUEL BECKETT (1906- ). Bom in Dublin but has lived in Paris since before the war. Although his reputation today is based principally on his post-war novels and plays, he wrote two pre-war novels, a number of short stories and much poetry. Universally recognized as one of the finest prose-stylists of the twentieth century. Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature 1969. Collected Poems in English and French published in 1977. Poem JOHN HEWITT (1907- ). Born in Belfast. Educated at Queen’s University. His Collected Poems were published in 336 338 340
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CONSENTS 1968. His best work is marked by a hard, vigorous lyrieism. He describes himself as ‘an Irishman of Planter stock, by profession an art gallery man, politically a man of the Left’, Has edited the poems of William Allingham. The Glens LOUIS MACNEICE (1907-63). Bom in Belfast. Lecturer in classics at Birmingham and London. Played a vital part in the poetic movement of the thirties. Essentially a lyric poet though he wrote a good deal of satire. His Collected Poems (1966) constitutes a very impressive achievement. Autumn Journal (1938) is perhaps his most striking single book. Valediction DENIS DEVLIN (1908-59). Irish ambassador to Italy. Collected Poems, edited by Brian Coffey, appeared in 1964. Experimented with metre, diction and rhythm. Strongly influenced by French and German poets. His work has begun to attract the critical attention it deserves. The Colours of Love Lough Derg ROBERT FARREN (1909- ). Bom in Dublin. Educated at University College, Dublin. The First Exile (1944) is an epic on the life of Saint Columcille. The Mason W. R. RODGERS (1909-69). Bom in Belfast. Close friend of MacNeice. Published Awake (1941) and Europa and the Bull (1952). He can be witty, agonized, intense and very funny. His best work has both musical and intellectual complexity. The Net Home Thoughts from Abr oad W. B. STANFORD (1910- ). Regius Professor of Greek at Trinity College, Dublin. Well-known figure in the Irish literary and political scene. Publications include Greek Metaphor (1936); The Ulysses Theme (1954, second edition 1 963) 1 The Sound of Greek (1967); Enemies of Poetry (1980). His ideas on the function of sound in poetry are particularly fascinating. He lives at Dalkey, County Dublin. Undertone DONAGH MACDONAGH (1912-68). Son of Thomas MacDonagh, 1916 leader. Wrote a good verse-play, Happy as - 18- 364 365 36! 36; 374 376 377 379
CONTENTS Larry. Published poetry includes The Hungry Grass (1947) and A Warning to Conquerors (1968). At his liveliest in the ballad form, about which he knew a great deal. The Hungry Grass 380 SIGERSON CLIFFORD (1913- ). A writer in the earthy ballad tradition as is shown in Ballads of a Bogman (1955). A play, The Great Pacificator, was produced by the Abbey Theatre in 1947. Other plays include The Knave of Diamonds, Nano and The Glassy Man. The raciness of his plays is also evident in his ballads. The Ballad of the Tinker’s Wife 381 VALENTIN IREMONGER (1918- ). Winner ot he AE Memorial Award in 1945. Reservations (1950) shows a fine mastery of rhythm and metaphor. A distinguished Irish ambassador. For many years after the appearance of Reservations Iremonger published little. Recently a welcome renewal of creative energy has been apparent. Horan’s Field And Other Reservations (1972) is a fine collection. Icarus 385 KEVIN FALLER (1920- ). Bom in Galway City. His work includes a volume of poems, Island Lyrics (1963), and a novel Genesis (1953). His poetry has also appeared in several anthologies of Irish verse. Landscape 386 ROY McFADDEN (1922- ). Lives in Belfast. A lawyer . by profession. Published work includes Swords and Ploughshares (1943), Flowers for a Lady (1945), The Heart’s Townland (1947), and Elegy for the Dead of the Princess Victoria (1953). His poetry appears regularly in the leading Irish periodicals. Saint Francis and the Birds 387 PADRAIC FIACC (1924- ). Born in Belfast. Lived in New York for several years. Received the AE Memorial Award for Woe to the Boy (1957). Publishes regularly in Irish periodicals and magazines. Another collection, By the Black Stream, appeared in 1969. This was followed by Odour of Blood in 1973. Alive Alive O 388 ANTHONY CRONIN (1925- ). His Collected Poems appeared in 1973. For a Father 389 -19-
CONTENTS JEROME KIELY (1925- ). Educated at the diocesan college, Farranferris, County Cork and at St Patrick’s College, Maynooth, County Kildare. Ordained a priest in 1950. Winner of the Adam Prize for Poetry in 1953. A strong compassion in the poems of The Griffon Sings (1966). Teaches in Farranfetris. Lizard 390 EUGENE R. WATTERS (1925- ). Native of Ballinas- loe, County Galway. Writes novels, verse, drama, and criticism in both Irish and English. Won the Book Club Award for his Irish prose epic, L At toque. The Week-End of Dermot and Grace (1964) is an impressive long poem based on the old Irish love story of Diarmuid and Grania. From The Week-End of Dermot and Grace 392 PEARSE HUTCHINSON (1927- ). Writes in Irish and in English. His translations of Catalan poetry published in Spain and England. Tongue Without Hands (1963), Expansions (1969) and The Frost Is All Over (1975) contain some of his best work in English. Look, No Hands 394 RICHARD KELL (1927- ). Born in County Cork. Educated in India, Belfast, and Trinity College, Dublin. His Control Tower (1962) showed a deep intelligence, a perceptive eye and a disciplined ear at work in many poems. Spring Night 395 RICHARD MURPHY (1927- ). Bom in Galway. Publications include The Archaeology of Love (1955), The Last Galway Hooker (1961), Sailing to an Island (1963), The Battle of Aughrim (1968), High Island (1974) and Selected Poems (1979). A good narrative poet capable of tightly knit lyric verse. The Poet on the Island 397 JOHN B. KEANE (1928- ). Best known as a playwright. His poems were collected in The Street and Other Poems (1961). Has also written numerous essays and humorous articles. A strong sense of drama pervades all his work. Certainty 399 ULICK O’CONNOR (1928- ). Bom in Dublin and educated at University College, where he took a degree in law. Biographer of Oliver St John Gogarty and Brendan - 20 -
CONTENTS Behan. Playwright, journalist, translator and critic. His published work includes Sputnik and Other Poems (1967) and Life Styles (1973). Oscar Wilde BASIL PAYNE (1928- ). A Dubliner, his published work includes Sunlight On A Square (1961), Love In The Afternoon (1971) and Another Kind Of Optimism (1974). Has translated German and French poetry. Lines in Memory of my Father THOMAS KINSELLA (1929- ). Publications include Another September (1958); Downstream (1962); Wormwood (1966); Butcher s Dozen (1972); Selected Poems iqj6-iq6i (1973); The Good Fight (1973); Fifteen Dead (1979). Translated the old Irish epic, Tain Bo Cuailgne. Downstream II JOHN MONTAGUE (1929- ). Bom in New York. Teaches at University College, Cork. His many collections include Poisoned Lands (1961; 1977); A Chosen Light (1967); The Rough Field (1972; 1979); The Great Cloak (1978); and The Leap (1979). Edited The Faber Book of Irish Verse (1974). The Trout PATRICK GALVIN (1930- ). Bom and reared in Cork city. A distinguished dramatist whose plays confront difficult social problems in Ireland. Joined the French Foreign Legion as a young man. Worked for many years in England. His collection, The Wood-Burners (1973), is his best book of verse to date. The Madwoman of Cork SEAN LUCY (1931- ). His major collection to date is Unfinished Sequence (1979). Professor of Modem English at University College, Cork. Senior Members RICHARD WEBER (1932- ). Bom in Dublin. Lady Gentleman (1963) and Stephen’s Green Revisited (1968) contain his best work. Lady Gentleman SEAN O’MEARA (1933- ). Bom in Dublin. Has pub- v lished poetry in magazines such as Poetry Ireland, The Dubliner —21 - 400 402 403 406 407 410 412
CONTENTS and Dublin Magazine since 1952. His first collection is due shotdy from Profile Press. The Lady of the Restaurant JAMES SIMMONS (1935- ). Bom in Londonderry, educated at Leeds University. Taught for five years at Friends’ School, Lisburn, where he began to write his own songs and sing them on radio and television. Won a Gregory Award for poetry. Is now lecturing in the English Department of the New University of Ulster, Coleraine. His best verse is marked by strong rhythms and verbal gusto. See Selected Poems (1978). Art and Reality 414I 416 JAMES LIDDY (1934- ). Bom in Clare. An address on James Joyce, Esau, My Kingdom for a Drink, was published i on Bloomsday 1962. Other publications include In a Blue i. Smoke (1964) and Blue Mountain (1968). To the Memory of Bernard Berenson 417; RIVERS CAREW (1935- ). Educated at Trinity College, Dublin. Publications include Figures out of Mist (with Timothy Brownlow) (1966), as well as poems in a variety of periodicals and magazines. Catching Trout 419 JAMES McAULEY (1935- ). His urbane, fastidious tone emerges in A New Address (1965). Has also written strong satire on the complacency of contemporary Ireland. Lives in America. Stella 420 DESMOND O’GRADY (1933- ). His works include Chords And Orchestrations (1956); Peilly (1961); The Dark Edge of Europe (1967); Separations (1973); The Headgear Of The Tribe: New and Selected Poems (1979). Homecoming 422 BRENDAN KENNELLY (1936- ). Published work includes Dream Of A Black Fox (1968); Selected Poems (1969); Salvation, The Stranger (1972); The Voices (1973); Islandman (*977)5 - 4 Small Eight (1979). My Dark Fathers 424 - 22 -
CONTENTS RUDI HOLZAPFEL (1938- ). Bom in Paris. Educated in the U.S.A. and at Trinity College, Dublin. Has published several volumes of poetty including Romances (i960); The Rebel Bloom (1967); and Soledades (1972). The Employee SEAMUS HEANEY (1939- ). Published work includes Death of A Naturalist (1966); A Door Into The Dark (1969); Wintering Out (1972); North (1975); and Field Work (1979). At a Potato Digging MICHAEL LONGLEY (1939- ). No Continuing City (1969) and Man Lying On A Wall (1976) contain some of this poet’s most arresting work. Leaving Inishmore SEAMUS DEANE(i94o- ). Bom in Derry City, Northern Ireland. Educated at Queen’s University, Belfast and Cambridge University, England. Is now Professor of Modern English, and American Literature in University College, Dublin. His two collections are Gradual Wars (1972) and Humours (1977). Awarded the A E Memorial Prize for Literature, 1973. Derry TIMOTHY BROWNLOW (1941- ). A Dubliner, educated at St Columba’s College and Trinity College, Dublin. The Hurdle Ford appeared in 1964 and Figures out of Mist (with Rivers Carew) in 1966. Portrait MICHAEL HARTNETT (1941- ). His best work is in A Farewell to English (1975; 1978). A collection of poems in Irish, Adharca Broic, was published in 1979. mo ghra thu (I love you) DEREK MAHON (1941- ). Among his most impressive collections are Night-Crossing (1968); Lives (1972); and The Snow Party (1975). His Collected Poems was published by Oxford University Press in 1979. In Carrowdore Churchyard EILEAN Ni CHUILLEANÄIN (1942- ). Her collections include Arts Attd Monuments (1972) and Cork (1977). The Second Voyage - 23 - 426 427 430 431 432 433 434 435
• V-BotAfinÄchiliTsland, Coimty ..ayu.^Educateä at University College, Dublin. His main - epllectiön to-date is Stalking After Time (1977). Founded Poetry Ireland, a poetry society,. 1978. Driving to Midnight Mass JOHN ENNIS (1944- ). Bom in Coralstown, County Westmeath. Educated at University College, Cork, University College, Dublin, and Maynootb College. His two collections are Night On Hibernia (1976) and Dolmen Hill (1977). Patrick Kavanagh Award for poetry, 1975. James PAUL DURCAN (1944- ). Bom in Dublin. Educated at Gonzaga College, Dublin and Urtiversiry College, Cork. Collections include Teresa’s Bar (1976) and Sam s Cross (1978). Patrick Kavanagh Award for poetry, 1974. Arts Council Bursary, 1976. Birth of a Coachman EAVAN BOLAND (1945- ). Three excellent books are Nets’ Territory (1967), The War Horse (1975), and In Her Own Image (1980). New Territory HAYDEN MURPHY (1945 - ). Bom in Dublin. Educated at Blackrock College, Dublin, and for ‘a short unproductive period’ at Trinity College, Dublin. Publications include Poems (1966) and Places Of Glass (1918). Editor of BROADSHEET (1968 78). Now lives in Edinburgh, Sword Swallower TOM McGURK (1946- ). Bom in Dublin. Has published poems in magazines and periodicals. Works in Irish television. Big Ned R 1 CHARDRYAN (1946- ). Bom in Dublin. Educated at University College, Dublin. Publications include L edges (1970) and Ravenstsood (1973). God the Father HU^rH MAX TON (1947 ). Bora in Dublin. Educated at Trinity College, Dublin. His two books are Stones (1970) and The Noise Of The Fields (1976) which was the Poetry
CONTENTS Book Society Summer Choice, 1976. Waking FR ANK ORMSBY(1947- ). Bom in Enniskillen, County ; Fermanagh. A Store Of Candles was published in 1977 and • was a Poetry Book Society Choice. Gregory Award for poetry, 1974. Editor of The Honest Ulsterman. Teaches English at Royal Belfast Academical Institudon. Moving In PETER FA LLON (1951- ). Bom in Osnabrück, Germany, of Irish parents. Educated at Glenstal Abbey School and at Trinity College. Books include The First Affair (1974), A Gentler Birth (1976) and The Speaking Stones (1978). Founder of Gallery Press. Editor and publisher of Gallery Books. • Co-editor of Soft Day, a miscellany of contemporary Irish writing. University of Notre Dame Press, Indiana, and • Wolfound Press, Dublin, 1979. The Cardplayers PAUL MULDOON (1951- ). Bom in County Armagh. Educated at Queen’s University, Belfasr. His three collectibns are New Weather (1973), Mules (1977), and Why Brownlee Left (1980). Gregory Award for poetry, 1972. Works as a Talks Producer for the B.B.C. in Belfast. Duffy’s Circus THOMAS MCCARTHY (1954- ). Bom in Cappoquin, County Waterford. Educated at University College, Cork. His main collection to date is The First Convention (1978). Patrick Kavanagh Award for poetry, 1977. Arts Council Bursary in Literature, 1978. A new collection, The Sorrow- Garden, is due soon. State Funeral AIDAN CARL MATHEWS (1956- ). Bom in Dublin. Educated at University College and Trinity College, Dublin. Windfalls was published in 1977. Irish Times Award for poetry, 1974. Patrick Kavanagh Award, 1976. Macaulay Fellowship in Literature, 1978. Woodniche 451 452 453 455 45 ? 465 A cknowledgements Index of poem titles Index of first lines -25 -
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