Plays & Poetry

Thomas Kinsella is one of the distinguished modern poets. His work over fifty years has challenged the poetic landscape. It employs myth and modernism in explorations that range from intense lyricism to political satire and social commentary. This representative selection of his poetry invites readers to explore the range of his poetic world.

Last Poems brings together the poems of Thomas Kinsella from his five final Peppercanister pamphlets, originally collected as Late Poems (2013), along with a substantial selection of new poems, fragments and revised work which the poet completed before his death in December 2021.

This magnificent anthology presents the Irish tradition as a unity: verse in Irish and English, usually regarded separately, are shown as elements in a shared and often painful history. The selection begins in pre-Christian times and closes with nineteenth- and twentieth-century verse. Poets featured include Swift, Goldsmith, W. B. Yeats, Patrick Kavanagh, and Seamus Heaney.

"The T 'ain B 'o Cuailnge", centre-piece of the 8th century Ulster cycle of heroic tales, is Ireland's greatest epic. This translation is based on the partial texts in two medieval manuscripts, with elements from other versions, and adds a group of related stories which prepare for the T 'ain.

From the creator of Dublin Oldschool comes a poetic and musical journey about family, love and the sound of our voices

A collection of his poems and plays by Thomas O'Brien (1914-1974), poet, playwright, publisher, communist, IRA member and founding member of the revolutionary New Theatre Group, with an account of his life.