Plays & Poetry Irish

This bilingual, English/Irish language poetry collection addresses the human condition from the personal to the universal.

This new collection of poems in the Irish language by Ireland's master poet centres on the life and flight of cranes.

Selected Edition of Irish-Language Poetry by Author

Jean O'Brien was born in Dublin where she now lives after an eight year sojourn in the Irish Midlands where she was Writer-in-Residence. She has four previous collections to her name; The Shadow Keeper (1997), Dangerous Dresses (2005), Lovely Legs (2009) and Merman (2012). Her Awards include The Arvon International Poetry Award, and The Fish International Poetry Award.

PEGGY O'BRIEN grew up in western Massachusetts, where she now lives with her husband. She teaches at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Tongues is a radical retelling of the twelfth-century legend of Heloise and Abelard, she the rapt acolyte, he the brilliant logician.