Irish Literature: A small island, an outsized genius

The extraordinary Irish tradition — Yeats and Joyce, Wilde and Shaw, Swift and the long line of writers who remade English from its western edge.

In this collection

• To my Wife
• The Fisherman
• The Pity of Love
• Alone
• An Irish Airman Foresees His Death
• Bahnhofstrasse
• Children in Prision and other Cruelties of Prision Life
• Apologia
• Men Improve with the Years
• Aedh Laments the Loss of Love
• Royalty
• The Secular View Natural, not Rational, Therefore Inevitable
• How he Lied to her Husband
• The Poetry of the People
• The Heart of the Woman
• On the Beach at Fontana
• The Ballad of Reading Gaol
• Press Cuttings
• The Art of Archaeology
• Annajanska
• Tædium Vitæ
• Fabien Dei Franchi
• The Living Beauty
• Chanson
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