Irish Poems
Irish Poems

Author: Matthew Maguire

Publisher: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9781841597867

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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. It has grappled long with politics and has provided the most eloquent response to Ireland's turbulent history, mediating and mitigating histories of loyalty and loss; it has soaked itself in the Irish landscape and Celtic myth; it has encompassed religion, so much a part of Ireland's cultural heritage. At the same time Irish poets have given their own original slant to everyday experience and affairs of the heart.Thematically organized and spanning many centuries, this selection also features a section of Gaelic poetry in translation, notably excerpts from the 18th-century epic masterpiece, Brian Merriman's The Midnight Court.

100 Dàn as Fheàrr Leinn
100 Dàn as Fheàrr Leinn

Author: Peter MacKay

Publisher: Luath Press Ltd

Published: 2020-11-11

Total Pages: 594

ISBN-13: 1910022241

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A collection of 100 favourite Gaelic poems and songs – love poems and hymns, sea ditties and war poems, lullabies and elegies – many translated into English for the first time. Selected by Peter Mackay and Jo MacDonald, and including public nominations, these poems give a multi-layered taste of the full richness of Gaelic literature from the Middle Ages to the present day. Cruinneachadh de 100 dàn agus òran Gàidhlig de dh'iomadh seòrsa agus o iomadh linn – nam measg bàrdachd gaoil agus laoidhean, òrain mara agus òrain cogaidh, tàlaidhean agus marbhrainn. Air an taghadh le Pàdraig MacAoidh agus Jo NicDhòmhnaill, le molaidhean an t-sluaigh, tha an cruinneachadh seo a' toirt blasad de shàr-bheartas litreachas na Gàidhlig.

Irish Poetry under the Union, 1801–1924
Irish Poetry under the Union, 1801–1924

Author: Matthew Campbell

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-11-18

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 1107044847

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This book tells the story of Irish poetry in English, from the union of Ireland and Great Britain in 1801 to the Irish Free State in 1921 and beyond. It offers both a literary history of nineteenth-century Irish poetry and a way of reading it for scholars of Irish studies as well as Romantic and Victorian literature.

Songs of Gaelic Scotland
Songs of Gaelic Scotland

Author: Anne Lorne Gillies

Publisher:

Published: 2019-11-07

Total Pages: 572

ISBN-13: 9781912476640

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Gaelic Scotland is one of the world's great treasure-houses of song. This work is an anthology of music and lyrics from the Gaelic-speaking Highlands and Islands. It provides an introduction to Gaelic tradition, musical transcriptions, and English translations. It portrays the social and historical background of the songs.