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Machine generated contents note: The Origins -- ch. One Early Medieval Irish Poetry (c. 600-1200) / Natasha Sumner -- 1. Anonymous, "I and White Pangur" -- 2. Colmcille, "The road on which I go" -- 3. Anonymous, extract from Serglige Con Culainn, "A Hero Humbled" -- 4. Anonymous, extract from Serglige Con Culainn, "Emer's Complaint" -- 5. Anonymous, extract from Acallam na Senorach, "Advice to Mac Lugach" -- 6. Anonymous, "It's ever-lasting cold!" -- 7. Anonymous, "St. Brigid's Alefeast" -- 8. Colmcille, "My hand is weary from writing" -- 9. Anonymous, "Keen is the wind tonight" -- 10. Anonymous, "I've heard" -- Classical Poetry -- ch. Two The Bard and His World (1200-1650) / Rory Rapple -- 11. Giolla Brighde Mac Con Midhe, "O messenger who comes from Rome" -- 12. Tadhg Og O hUiginn, "Sad for whomever indulges in hubris in my wake" -- 13. Fearghal Og Mac an Bhaird, "A Master Poet's Wealth Is a Prince's Glory" -- 14. Tadhg Dall O hUiginn, "A good merchant is Cormac" -- 15. Anonymous (O Gm'mh), "That's good and proper, Fearghal Og" -- 16. Eochaidh O hEodhasa, "A change for the better is laudable" -- 17. Fear Flatha O Gnimh, "The poetry of the land of Gaels has ceased" -- 18. Tadhg Dall O hUiginn, "The Land of Ireland Is But Swordland" -- 19. Padraigin Haicead, "I send a love token to a companion" -- 20. Padraigin Haicead, "I heard yesterday, from a gentle confrere" -- ch. Three Incursion and Interaction: Irish and Normans (1200-1500) / Michelle O. Riordcm -- 21. Muireadhach Albanach O Dalaigh, "This hair I offer You, God the Father" -- 22. Tadhg Mor O hUiginn, "Hail the dressing of your hair" -- 23. Adhamh O Fialain, "Accept instruction, foolish youth" -- 24. Gofraidh Fionn O Dalaigh, "Guide us, Domhnall" -- 25. Eoghan Mhag Craith, "Two equal divisions are on Niall's land" -- 26. Tuathal O hUiginn, "Niall's kingdom was not got for nothing" -- 27. Tadhg Og O hUiginn, "Reveal your power, Mary" -- 28. Tuathal O hUiginn, "I am no stranger in Mana" -- 29. Tadhg Og O hUiginn, "The Earl is a stranger in Ireland" -- 30. Tadhg Og O hUiginn, "This is a long season before me" -- ch. Four Reformation, Conquest, and Exile (1534-1611) / Geraldine Parsons -- 31. Tadhg Dall O hUiginn, "As with women under enchantments" -- 32. Eoghan O Dubhthaigh, "Oh Ireland, pitiful is your state!" -- 33. Uilliam Nuinseann, "Away from Inis Fail" -- 34. Lochlainn O Dalaigh, "You are desolate, O abode of the friars" -- 35. Giolla Brighde O hEodhasa, "O reader of this little book" -- 36. Giolla Brighde O hEodhasa, "O letter that makes its way over the main" -- 37. Eoghan Ruadh Mac an Bhaird, "O woman who hast found the tomb unguarded" -- 38. Ainnrias mac Marcuis, "Tonight Ireland is desolate" -- 39. Fearflatha O Gm'mh, "Pitiful is the state of the Irish" -- 40. Niall Mor MacMhuirich, "Farewell ever to last night" -- 41. Mor Chaimbeul, "Early on Lammas morning" -- ch. Five Poetic Response to Plantations (1609) / Brendan Kane -- 42. Anonymous, "The Desire of Mac Cumhaill, of Good Repute" -- 43. Lochlainn O Dalaigh, "Where have the Gaels gone?" -- 44. Mathghamhain O hlfearnain, "Question! Who will buy a poem?" -- 45. Tuileagna O Maoil Chonaire, "Ladies, Let Us Weep for Glashare" -- 46. Muiris mac Daibhf Dhuibh Mac Gearailt, "How great the difference between the ages" -- 47. Brian Mac Giolla Phadraig (?), "Woe is me, these fashions of Ireland" -- 48. Eoghan Ruadh Mac an Bhaird, "Happy be thy journey, AodhRuadh" -- 49. Eoghan Ruadh Mac an Bhaird, "O hostage in London Tower" -- 50. Piaras Feiritear, "I loved an English maiden" -- 51. Padraigin Haicead, "Rouse up your country, my Ireland" -- A New Order: Politia and Popularization -- ch. Six Poetry, Politics, and the Apocalypse (1641-1660) / Brendan Kane -- 52. Gofraidh Og Mac an Bhaird, "It is the end of the foreign band's rule" -- 53. Padraigin Haicead, "On the Outbreak of This War in Ireland, in the Year 1641" -- 54. Diarmaid Og O Murchadha, "Free the bright land of Conaire, royal MacCarthy" -- 55. Anonymous, "Swiftly from the east came tidings" -- 56. Uilliam Og Mac an Bhaird, "Spell of love doth follow Eoin" -- 57. Iain Lorn (MacDonald), "The Battle of Inverlochy" -- 58. Brian Og Mac Con Midhe, "Hard is thy case, O Land of Breagha" -- 59. Sean O Criagain, "Murchadh O'Brien, who's been hunting Gaels" -- 60. Anonymous, "The Roman Fairy" -- 61. Sean O Conaill, "Lament for Ireland" -- ch. Seven Poems of the Restoration and the War of the Two Kings (1660-1691) / Samuel K. Fisher -- 62. Daibhf O Bruadair, "The Purgatory of the Men of Ireland" -- 63. Daibhf O Bruadair, "Woe To Him Who Hasn't Troubled" -- 64. Daibhf O Bruadair, "I Really Though Him a Chief, All the Same" and "A Shriveled-up Servant" -- 65. Seamas Dall Mac Cuarta, "The Houses of Corr an Chait" -- 66. Daibhf O Bruadair, "After the Noble Poets" -- 67. Diarmaid mac Sheain Bhuf Mac Carthaigh, "A hundred thanks to God" -- 68. Daibhi' O Bruadair, "The Shipwreck" -- 69. Seamas Dall Mac Cuarta, "Elegy for Sorley MacDonnell" -- 70. Daibhf O Bruadair, "I Have to Put Up with a Lot in This World" -- 71. Anonymous Folk Verse: Verses on the Jacobite War -- ch. Eight Penal Laws and Jacobite Poetry / Eamonn O. Ciardha -- 72. Sean Clarach Mac Domhnaill, "I Am Forever Heartbroken" -- 73. Aogan O Rathaille, "Gile na Gile" -- 74. Aogan O Rathaille, "The Merchant's Son" -- 75. Sean Clarach Mac Domhnaill, "Listen to My Voice, Oh Great Descendants of Milesius" -- 76. Anonymous, "Ord, You Are Welcome Home" -- 77. Cathal Buf Mac Giolla Gunna, "The Yellow Bittern" -- 78. Donnchadh Rua Mac Conmara, "As I was walking one evening fair" -- 79. Art Mac Cumhaigh, "The Disputation of Two Temples" -- 80. Cait de Burca, "Father Nicholas, My Sorrow at Your Death" -- 81. Anonymous, "The Lament for Patrick Fleming" -- ch. Nine From Jacobitism to the Great Famine (1700-1850) / Padraig O. Liathain -- 82. Aogan O Rathaille, "Aogan O Rathaille's Vision" -- 83. Aogan O Rathaille, "Whereas Aonghas, clever as a seer" -- 84. Maire Ni Reachtagain, "You are welcome to populous Dublin" -- 85. Tadhg O Neachtain, "Tadhg O Neachtain's Lament" -- 86. Aodh Bui Mac Cruitin, "O nobles of beautiful Ireland" -- 87. Sean Clarach Mac Domhnaill, "A Poem for Seon Eana" -- 88. Peadar O Doirmin, "Muiris O Gormain" -- 89. Donnchadh Rua Mac Conmara, "Fair Hills of Ireland" -- 90. Piaras Mac Gearailt, "The Battlecry of Munster" -- 91. Tadhg Gaelach O Suilleabhain, "The light of my heart is your heart" -- 92. Eibhlin Dubh Ni Chonaill, "The Keen for Art O Laoghaire" (extracts) -- 93. Tomas O Miochain, "On the English Army's Withdrawal from Boston, 1776" -- 94. Eoghan Rua O Suilleabhain, "Magic Mist" -- 95. Brian Merriman, "The Midnight Court" (extract) -- 96. Riocard Bairead, "Fair Owen" -- 97. Mfcheal Og O Longain, "Take a letter to Munster from me" -- 98. Sean O Coileain, "The Remorseful Man's Contemplation" -- 99. Maire Bhui Ni Laoghaire, "Maire Ni Laoghaire" -- 100. Antaine Raiftearai, "The Galway Election" -- 101. Padraig Phiarais Cundun, "The Weakness of the Gaels of Ireland" -- ch. Ten Nineteenth-Century Song Poetry / Sorcho Nic Lochlainn -- 102. Cormac O Neill, "If Only I Were in Ardicoan" -- 103. Brid Ni Mhaille, "The Song of the Drowning" -- 104. Anonymous, "The Keening Woman" -- 105. Sean Aerach O Seanachain, "My Dark Slender Boy" -- 106. Nellie Ni Ghallchobhair, "An Old Song in Irish -- The Famine Times" -- 107. Maire Chonnachtach Ni Dhdnaill, "Magnanimous Father Donall" -- 108. Antaine Raiftearai, "Ballylee" -- 109. Anonymous, "O'Neill's Castle" or "The Dark Woman from the Mountain" -- 110. Micheal "Studman" Mac Carthaigh, "Counsel for Young Men" -- 111. Anonymous, "The Brown and the Yellow Ale" -- 112. Anonymous, "Doin Du -- Doh-een do" -- 113. Anonymous, "The Gates of Baile Bui" -- 114. Anonymous, "Hupsy Raw of the Fitzgeralds" -- 115. Anonymous, "Between Ardmore and Youghal" -- 116. Tomas Rua O Suilleabhain, "Daniel O'Connell, Eloquent, Kind" -- 117. Anonymous, "Johnny Seoighe" -- 118. Peadar Greasai O Domhnaill, "The Son of Neil of Carrick" -- 119. Anonymous, "Mary Mongan" or "The Conamara Widow" -- 120. Anonymous, "A Thousand Glories to God" -- 121. Peatsai O Callanain, "The White Potatoes" -- 122. Anonymous, "When I Go through This Place" -- 123. Maire Bhui `Ni' Laoghaire, "Lullaby" -- 124. Seamus O Grianna ("Maire"), "At Twilight Last Night" -- 125. John Beag O Flatharta, "The Song of Ros Muc" -- In the Age of the Local and the Global -- ch. Eleven Formalism, Realism, and Revivalist Rhymers (1880-1940) / Brian O. Conchubhair -- 126. Padraig Mac Piarais/P. H. Pearse, "O Little Lad of the Tricks" -- 127. Padraig O heigeartaigh, "Ochon! A Dhonncha" -- 128. Padraig Ua Duinnin, "The Sinking of the Titanic, April, 1912" -- 129. Aine Ni Fhoghlu, "The Volunteer's Plea" -- 130. Aine Ni Fhoghlu, "I Bid You Farewell in the East" -- 131. Una Ni Fhaircheallaigh/Agnes O'Farrelly, "The Crossroads" -- 132. Liam S. Gogan, "Fantastical Forest" -- 133. Liam S. Gogan, "Fantastical Fog" -- 134. Liam S. Gogan, "Ship of State" -- ch. Twelve Post-WWII: The Rise of Modernism (1940-1970) / David Wheatley -- 135. Sean O Riordain, "My Mother's Burial" -- 136. Sean O Riordain, "Siollabadh" -- 137. Sean O Riordain, "Epiphany" -- 138. Mairtin O Direain, "Springtime in the West" -- 139. Mairtin O Direain, "Our Wretched Era" -- 140. Mairtin O Direain, "Berkeley" -- 141. Mairtin O Direain, "O Morna" -- 142. Maire Mhac an tSaoi, "Mary Hogan's Quatrains" -- 143. Maire Mhac an tSaoi, "What Is Woman?" |
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Note continued: 144. Maire Mhac an tSaoi, "My Mother's Death" -- 145. Brendan Behan, "A Jackeen Keens for the Blaskets" -- 146. Eoghan O Tuairisc, "Mass of the Dead" (extract) -- ch. Thirteen The Innti Generation (1970-2000) / Cliona Ni Riordain -- 147. Tomas Mac Siomdin, "1845" -- 148. Micheal O hAirtneide/Michael Hartnett, "The Gaeltacht Face" -- 149. Caitlin Maude, "Untitled" -- 150. Derry O'Sullivan, "Stillborn 1943: Calling Limbo" -- 151. Biddy Jenkinson, "Ecologist" -- 152. Biddy Jenkinson, "Alabama, Summer '86" -- 153. Gabriel Rosenstock, "Kon2ipierung" -- 154. Gabriel Rosenstock, "Television" -- 155. Liam O Muirthile, "In Dingle" -- 156. Liam O Muirthile, "North" -- 157. Liam O Muirthile, "The Weight of Things" -- 158. Michael Davitt, "Limerick" -- 159. Michael Davitt, "For Bobby Sands on the Eve of His Death" -- 160. Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, "Carnival" -- 161. Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, "Premature Birth Abroad" -- 162. Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, "Sisters, We Are Damned" -- 163. Cathal O Searcaigh, "Beyond" -- 164. Cathal Q Searcaigh, "High Street, Kensington 6 PM" -- 165. Colm Breathnach, "The Dead Man -- 166. Louis de Paor, "The Isle of the Dead" -- ch. Fourteen Last of the Innocents: Twenty-First-Century Poetry / Brian O. Conchubhair -- 167. Cathal O Searcaigh, "Sic Transit" -- 168. Doireann Ni Ghriofa, "Mash" -- 169. Doireann Ni Ghriofa, "Tattoo Removal" -- 170. Doireann Ni Ghriofa, "April, 1912" -- 171. Aifric Mac Aodha, "A Crow's Wisp" -- 172. Caitriona Ni Chleirchin, "The Parting of the Ways" -- 173. Matthew Ryan Shelton, "Apocalypse" -- 174. Ciara Ni E, "Phenomenal Woman" -- 175. Tadhg O Caoinleain/Timothy E. Quinlan, "But Only Say the Word and We Shall Be Healed" -- 176. Ola Majekodunmi, "Black Women's Hair" -- 177. Julie Breathnach-Banwait, "Uluru Khata Tjuta" -- 178. Celia de Freine, "Los Angeles Olympics" -- 179. Dairena Ni Chinneide, "Death Notice" -- 180. John Caulfield, "Between Two Towns" -- 181. Aine Ni Ghlinn, "Unshed Tears" (extracts) -- 182. Ailbhe Ni Ghearbhuigh, "Return to the City" -- 183. Ailbhe Ni Ghearbhuigh, "Another Monk and His Cat". |
