Irish Poems is a treasury of poetry from the Emerald Isle, stretching
back fourteen centuries.
From the romantic ballad to the rebel song, from devotional Christian
verse to revivals of ancient Celtic myth, poetry has long been Ireland's
most eloquent response to its turbulent and colorful history. Irish
Poems gives us a dazzling selection from a long and distinguished
poetic tradition, ranging from the earliest Gaelic bards up to the
present. Organized around such themes as politics, religion, Gaelic
culture, the Irish landscape, and matters of the heart, the poems
collected here come from a wide range of writers old and new, including
such literary giants as Jonathan Swift, Oliver Goldsmith, Oscar Wilde,
W. B. Yeats, J. M. Synge, Samuel Beckett, Louis MacNeice, Patrick
Kavanagh, Paul Muldoon, Evan Boland, Seamus Heaney, and many more.