Francis Ledwidge, a labourer’s son from Slane in County Meath, wrote of fields, blackbirds, rivers and the old heroes of Irish legend before he enlisted and was killed in Flanders in 1917. This collection gathers Songs of the Fields, Songs of Peace and Last Songs, each introduced by Lord Dunsany, the patron who discovered him.
Tender, musical nature poems written in barracks and trenches, for readers of Irish verse and the poetry of the Great War. Download the free EPUB.