Plays & Poetry Irish

This volume contains the three plays commonly recognized as the height of O'Casey's achievement as a playwright. His tragi-comedy has relevance to the violent politics in the North and the post-nationalist bewilderments in the Republic.

This educational edition, with the full play text and an introduction to the playwright, features a detailed analysis of the language, structure and characters of the play, and textual notes explaining difficult words and references.

For Peter Levi, Professor of Poetry at Oxford, it was ‘the greatest poem written in these islands in the whole eighteenth century’.

Collection of 36 poems on a wide range of topics including: Seán Ó Riada at the Gaiety Theatre, a kestrel mobbed by rooks, and a meditation on the social position of the clergy in mid-twentieth century Ireland. ** Issued in a limited edition of 200 copies. Cover illustration by Joe Sweeney. Dublin award-winning poet.

"Love, loss, memory, history, place are familiar preoccupations in John O’Donnell’s work; and, though poetry’s subject matter may be similar, a unique voice explores these themes in unique ways. The poems take us to very different places: Shakespeare in Ireland, the Holocaust, pioneering in Oregon, a grandmother’s Alzheimer’s. Here is a poet who searches for truth, and whether O’Donnell is remembering “me, surly in a sleeping-bag, fifteen” or the Omagh atrocity, the voice is always direct and honest, while capturing the close-up and personal with a wonderful fluency. O’Donnell’s poetry explores the steady and steadying presence of love within a family context but it also gives us the bigger picture, pictures of injustice, turmoil, ‘the unfathomable’ and what O’Donnell calls ‘a deep darker than ink’. Turn to these enriching and engaging poems in Sunlight: New and Selected Poems; the poems will turn to you. And you will be rewarded."—Niall MacMonagle, from the Introduction

A collection of poems by the winner of the Whitbread Prize for Poetry.

Animates the characters of his childhood in County Cork. This book confirms author's place as one of the most approachable and agile voices in contemporary Irish and British poetry.