Irish Poetry

Lucy Collins praised Gerald Dawe’s poetry for ‘the seriousness of its engagement with acts of remembering.

The double negative amounts to a positive.

My love, he’s an Olympic champion. Wimbledon? He’s won more than seven times.

My love, he’s an Olympic champion. Wimbledon?

He’s won more than seven times.

Poems and Writings of Stephen O'Reilly

The Buried Breath announces the arrival of a striking new voice and poetic talent. With formal ease and a sharply engaged sense of ethical inquiry, these lucid, lyrical poems delve into art and history, remembered lives and contemporary conflicts, for illumination and insight. 

Poems in Irish by Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill with translations into English by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Peter Fallon, Eamon Grennan, Bernard O’Donoghue and Dennis O’Driscoll. In May of this year Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill received the Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award.

Poems in Irish by Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill with translations into English by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Peter Fallon, Eamon Grennan, Bernard O’Donoghue and Dennis O’Driscoll. In May of this year Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill received the Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award.

From brief lyrics that examine a mixtape or a plectrum to larger meditations on the connections between the life of Robert Frost and a trip to the supermarket in the snow, the poems in Ciaran Berry’s third collection consider questions of what it means to grow up somewhere and grow away from somewhere.