Lady Gregory recalls a childhood when Irish poetry meant Thomas Moore’s melodies, and then offers what she found instead: old poems translated from the Irish into the Kiltartan English of the Galway countryside. Laments, love songs, religious verse and elegies, such as the poem that sends a holy man to a place where night is not seen, fill the book.
A small book of the Irish Revival, prized for its clear, musical English. Download the free EPUB.