Love of Ireland: Poems From the Irish [Signed Limited Edition]

Cork: Mercier Press, 1989. Hardcover. Very fine in very fine jacket. As new. in As new dust-jacket. Large octavo in pale pink illus jacket; 86 pages; 21 cm. Signed by Kennelly. Copy 183 of 250 specially bound and signed by Kennelly.: "This is a magical collection of translations from the Irish by one of Ireland's leading poets, Brendan Kennelly. Here he has captured all of the spontaneity, candour, freshness and emotional fullness of Irish poetry. -- Back cover. / Contents: Love of Ireland -- Old woman of Beare -- My story -- Knockmealdown -- Storm -- Flood -- Wind -- Vikings -- Wayside fountain -- Blackbird -- Blackbird's song -- Kate of Gornavilla -- She -- Happy the man -- Love-song -- Son of the king of Moy -- Etain -- How glad are the small birds -- Kisses -- Blackthorn pin -- Indifferent mistress -- Hate goes just as far as love -- Reconciliation -- Holy man -- Saint, bird, angel -- Jesus on the Sabbath -- Jesus at school -- Rome -- God's praises -- Bell -- Christ's bounty -- Wild man and the church -- God bless Munster -- Tree of life -- On Mael Mhuru the poet -- On the death of William Gould -- Hospitality in ancient Ireland -- Wild man of the woods -- Cliff of Alteran -- O'Neill's letter to Sir John McCoughleyn -- On the murder of David Gleeson, bailiff -- Fionn's generosity -- Boor -- Valentine Brown -- Uncertainty -- Hope -- County mayo -- Her head -- Dead wife -- Thoughts astray -- Harrowing of hell -- Cry for Art O'Leary -- Island protected by a bridge of glass -- Saint Brigid's prayer -- Mary -- Who Will Buy a poem? -- Song of summer -- Uncertainty -- Withered hands -- On a change in literary fashions -- ShannonIrish poetry. // Translations into English. Irish poetry. Poetry. Translations. Ireland -- Poetry. Irlande -- Poésie. Ireland.