Product Description: "The Penguin Book of Irish Poetry" features the work of three Nobel laureates - W.B. Yeats, Samuel Beckett and Seamus Heaney - as well as Jonathan Swift, Oscar Wilde, Thomas Moore, Patrick Kavanagh, Louis MacNeice, Eavan Boland and James Joyce...read more

Product Description: This anthology demonstrates that verse translation from the Irish represents, in its own right, a significant part of the tradition of Irish poetry written in English. Rather than offering the usual view of verse translation as a means of preserving and providing access to poetry written in Irish, this anthology foregrounds the aesthetic and cultural value of verse translation as poetry...read more

Product Description: A 21st century Book of Kells that brings together the work of more than 150 poets, visual artists, and calligraphers. Scotland and Ireland share a mythology, a rich music tradition, languages and some history. Irish Gaels, known as Scoti, invaded Scotland in the 5th century and gave it their name...read more

Product Description: An international poetry anthology for children, with both new poems and old favourites. Over 150 poems from more than 100 poets are featured in the book. Poems range from nursery rhymes, nonsense verse, haiku, dramatic verse, Irish verse with translations, love poems and limericks...read more

Product Description: This year represents the two-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Giacomo Leopardi. Many Irish poets think of Leopardi as one of Europe's greatest poets. In his time he was a European star, and for the Italians, along with Dante and Petrarch, he remains one of their most beloved poets...read more

The dynamic culture and history of Ireland is portrayed in a dramatic collection of poetry that spans the decades and recreates the great traditions of Irish poetry, including such early poets as W. B. Yeats, Padraic Colum, and J. M. Synge, as well as present-day talents Seamus Heaney and Michael Hartnett. Reprint. IP.