IRISH POETRY

Fred Johnston - Song at the Edge of the World -: Poems -PB ( Salmon Publishing) 1988

Fred Johnston (born 1951) is an Irish poet, novelist, literary critic and musician. He is the founder and current director of the Western Writers' Centre in Galway. He co-founded the Irish Writers'...

Gréagóir Ó Dúill - Rogha Dánta 1965-2001 - PB - As Gaeilge

Is beag file a shaothraigh chomh fada seo i ngort na filiochta agus is iomai claochlu a thainig ar Éirinn agus ar an saol i gcoitinne o chuaigh se i mbun pinn. Rud amhain nar athraigh, mar is...

Halperin, Richard W - Anniversary - PB - SIGNED & Dedicated - Poetry

  Anniversary is a sequence of love poems presented through a fracture of space and time:  a husband still here and writing, a wife no longer here but present.  Other poems...

Jack Hanna / The Friendship Tree: The Life and Poems of Davoren Hanna (Large Paperback)

 Davoren Hanna was born severely handicapped in 1975. His parents were lifelong participants in his struggle to become a writer. Much like the young Christy Moore in My Left Foot, Davoren...

Joan McBreen - A Walled Garden in Moylough - PB - SIGNED -1995

A US first edition paperback, published by Story Line Press, 1995 Signed by the author, undedicated to the title page.   

John Hewitt - Collected Poems 1932-67 - HB 1st Edition

A hardcover first edition, published by MacGibbon & Kee ( London) 1968. The first 'collected poems , ( it was later republished by Blackstaff as a perback edition)  Condition - very good,...

John Hewitt - Freehold and Other Poems - PB - 1986

Slim paperback, published by Blackstaff Press, 1986.  Light tanning to page block.  Freehold is a long poem from Hewitt, originally published in 1946 - 'exploring allegiances to people,...

Julie Morrissy - Where, the Mile End - Poems - PB

“In an impressive first collection, what strikes me most about Julie Morrissy is how few writers she reminds me of; in her weaving of Irish and American poetic traditions, she has found a...

MacMahon , Sean - The Smile and the Tear- Poems and Songs of Ireland - PB - BRAND NEW

Do you know how Brian O'Linn and his family finally got home? Who bate the Turks at Waterloo? Which way was Moll Maloney's head inclined? The answers to these and many other important questions are...

Máire Mhac an tSaoi - An Cion go dtí Seo ( Collected Poems) - PB - Filíocht - As Gaeilge - 1987

Duine de mhórfhilí na Gaeilge is ea Máire Mhac an tSaoi agus is tarlúint fhoilsitheoireacha ar leith é nuair a chuirtear bailiúchán iomlán...

Máirtín Ó Direáin - Dánta 1939-1979 - PB - Filíocht As Gaeilge - Árainn

One of our best-loved poets, essential reading for anyone interested in modern Irish poetry. Ó Direáin (1910 -1988) described his uprootedness as ‘stoiteachas' and the Aran...

Matthew McGuire ( Editor) - Irish Poems - HB -Everyman Library Pocket Poems

With its roots in the devotional verse of the early Christian church and the long lyric poems of the Irish bards, Irish poetry has a rich and robust tradition both of engagement and self-reflection...