Irish Poetry Books

swisscheese · **Joined:** Tue 13 Dec 2011 3:56 am **Posts:** 147

Hello Folks,

Does anyone here know of any good Irish poetry books by chance?

thanks much,

Swiss

WeeFalorieMan · **Posted:** Thu 09 Oct 2014 9:37 pm

Here's a good book to start off with:

"Favourite Poems That We Learned In School As Gaeilge" – Thomas F. Walsh

http://www.litriocht.com/shop/product_i ... Db_9r5i8rU

franc 91 · **Posted:** Thu 09 Oct 2014 9:49 pm

There are people here who are far more qualified than I am to talk about this, but looking around I can only suggest what is probably only blindingly obvious to them.

Sean Ó Ríordáin
Máirtín Ó Díreáin
Máire Mhac an tSaoi - and the Inntí Group
Liam Ó Muirthile
Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
Caitlín Maude
Gabriel Rosenstock - of whom I had the privilege of hearing reciting his haïkus, here in Paris.

There's the online catalogue of http://www.coisceim.ie and Litríocht also have quite a number of pages of poetry books (in the Literature section)
(and I mustn't forget Merriman and The Midnight Court as well as Pangur Bán - mentioned before on this forum)

well that's a start anyway.....

swisscheese · **Joined:** Tue 13 Dec 2011 3:56 am **Posts:** 147

Wonderful!

Thanks for the info folks :}

Rob · **Posted:** Thu 09 Oct 2014 11:45 pm

WeeFalorieMan wrote:

Here's a good book to start off with:

"Favourite Poems That We Learned In School As Gaeilge" – Thomas F. Walsh

http://www.litriocht.com/shop/product_i ... Db_9r5i8rU

This is going on the "to purchase" list. Looks awesome from the few pages that are available on Google Books.

WeeFalorieMan · **Posted:** Fri 10 Oct 2014 1:49 am

Rob wrote:

This is going on the "to purchase" list. Looks awesome from the few pages that are available on Google Books.

Yeah, it's got all of the classic stuff that most Irish speaking folks have read – it's worth its weight in gold.

swisscheese · **Joined:** Tue 13 Dec 2011 3:56 am **Posts:** 147

sounds like a plan :good:

micab · **Joined:** Mon 08 Oct 2012 11:11 am **Posts:** 72

swisscheese wrote:

Hello Folks,

Does anyone here know of any good Irish poetry books by chance?

thanks much,

Swiss

'Síoda ar Shíoda' by Clíodhna Cussen & Mícheál Ó Ruairc printed by Coiscéim see coisceim.ie.
The poems span the years 700-2000 and I found it an excellent choice.
'An Duanaire' Poems of the Dispossessed 1600-1900 edited by Seán Ó Tuama and Thomas Kinsella
printed by Dolmen Press

beagle · **Joined:** Mon 05 Sep 2011 1:45 am **Posts:** 267

You might also enjoy the poetry of Michael Hartnett (Micheál ÓhÁirtéide), who started writing in English and then switched completely to Irish.More info at Eigsemichaelhartnett.ie.

fio_smiles · **Joined:** Mon 22 Sep 2014 1:45 pm **Posts:** 12

This site has some short poems in Irish:
http://comhaltas.ie/education/comhra/danta

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