A little bit of Culture...  Poetry from soc.culture.irish

Poetry of Ireland  (Irish poets writing in English)

Posted by K E Dennis
on:    13 Aug 2009

...this one […] has a metre more reminiscent of English lyric verse of the period than of any indigenous Irish forms [& frankly is a bit of doggerel] but captures something of the change in the language that was underway in that tumultuous period. & it features star-crossed lovers, like any good trad poem ;-)

Hussa Tha Measg Na Realtan More
J. J. Callanan

 

The Irish Poems: J. J. Callanan
Edited & introduced by Gregory A. Schirmer
Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe Ltd, 2005