Poems from the Irish : Collected Translations

Old favorites and cutting edge contemporary poets sit easily together in this dual-language collection of Irish poetry from the seventeenth-century to the present day. Irish originals stand alongside Fitzmaurice's masterful translations of the work of poets such as Mairtin o Direain. Sean o Riordain. Maire Mhac an tSaoi. Aogan o Rathaille. Cathal Bui Mac Giolla Ghunna, Michael Davitt. aine Ni Ghlinn, and Cathal o Searchaigh.

Just my luck I'm not pig-ignorant	p. 17
The drenching night drags on	p. 19
The yellow bittern	p. 21
Cill Chais	p. 25
The Spailpin Fanach	p. 29
I am Raftery	p. 33
Cill Aodain	p. 35
Donall Og	p. 37
The Bog-deal board	p. 41
Donncha Ban	p. 43
Mary most grace-full	p. 47
The dignity of grief	p. 49
Forgive me	p. 51
Brown eyes	p. 53
A change	p. 55
White roads	p. 57
Christmas eve	p. 59
Enniscorthy and an aspect of history	p. 61
Captivity	p. 65
Vietnam love song	p. 67
Entanglement	p. 69
Entreaty	p. 71
Poem for Rosemary	p. 75
The purge	p. 77
Michael Hartnett's blues	p. 101
Poker	p. 103
We will stray	p. 105
For bobby sands on the day before he died	p. 111
Morning prayer	p. 113
A revisiting	p. 115
The broken step	p. 117
Pardin	p. 119
Cricklewood 6.00 a.m	p. 121
A letter from home	p. 123
Paidin's liver	p. 125
A phonecall home	p. 127
Another day down	p. 129
Saturday spree	p. 131
Paidin's garden	p. 133
A visit home	p. 135
Magdalene	p. 137
High Street, Kensington, 6 p.m	p. 139
The well	p. 141
Winter nights	p. 145
A portrait of the blacksmith as a young artist	p. 149
Here at Caiseal na gCorr station	p. 151
To Jack Kerouac	p. 155
One day deity	p. 159
The road of no returning	p. 163
Sheepman	p. 165
A braddy cow	p. 169
A fresh dimension	p. 171
There's nothing	p. 173
Wandering the mountainside	p. 175
My blackhaired love	p. 177
Ceremony	p. 179
Lights	p. 181
Song	p. 183
Sonnet	p. 185
On such a day	p. 187
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