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A Terrible Beauty: Poetry of 1916

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ISBN: 9781847173591
AuthorAshe FitzGerald, Mairead
Pub Date06/04/2015
BindingHardback
Pages160
CountryIRL
Dewey821.910803
Publisher: O'Brien Press Ltd
Quick overview A collection of poems of revolution and dreams and visions of freedom and nationhood for Ireland - focusing on before, during and after the 1916 Rising.
€14.99

Ireland's Easter 1916 Rising was unusual - led by a mix of soldiers and trade unions but also visionaries and writers. This collection of poems contains the dreams and visions of freedom and nationhood for Ireland by these artists, focusing on before, during and after the 1916 rising. Poets include: Padraic Pearse, William Butler Yeats, Joseph Mary Plunkett, Thomas MacDonagh, James Stephens, Francis Ledwidge, Eva Gore-Booth, George (AE) Russell, Dermot O'Byrne, Padraic Colum, Sean O'Casey, Dora, Sigerson Shorter, Thomas Ashe, Joyce Kilmer, Joseph Campbell, Katharine Tynan and others. Poems include: Yeats's 'Easter 1916' and 'Sixteen Dead Men'; Pearse's 'The Wayfarer'; Plunkett's 'See His Blood Upon the Rose'; Ledwidge's 'Lament for Thomas MacDonagh' and Gore-Booth's 'Roger Casement'.

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Ireland's Easter 1916 Rising was unusual - led by a mix of soldiers and trade unions but also visionaries and writers. This collection of poems contains the dreams and visions of freedom and nationhood for Ireland by these artists, focusing on before, during and after the 1916 rising. Poets include: Padraic Pearse, William Butler Yeats, Joseph Mary Plunkett, Thomas MacDonagh, James Stephens, Francis Ledwidge, Eva Gore-Booth, George (AE) Russell, Dermot O'Byrne, Padraic Colum, Sean O'Casey, Dora, Sigerson Shorter, Thomas Ashe, Joyce Kilmer, Joseph Campbell, Katharine Tynan and others. Poems include: Yeats's 'Easter 1916' and 'Sixteen Dead Men'; Pearse's 'The Wayfarer'; Plunkett's 'See His Blood Upon the Rose'; Ledwidge's 'Lament for Thomas MacDonagh' and Gore-Booth's 'Roger Casement'.