Product Description: This anthology offers modern readers translations of the lyric poetry transcribed or written by mediaeval Irish monks. Irish poets were the first Europeans to write in the vernacular, though few people now read this poetry in its original...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The text and translation of early Irish poems, both secular and religious. ""These translations...from the point of view of a telling economy and a regard for the original image, its absolute rightness, are far and away superior to anything else I have read"" - Cork Examiner...read more