Few other poets have worked as consistently as Gréagóir Ó Dúill. These poems mark the way that Ireland and indeed life generally have changed, these selected poems record, moreover, a unique and consistent intellectual and emotional engagement with modern Ireland.
Gréagóir Ó Dúill
Gréagóir Ó Dúill – Rogha dánta: 1965-2001
Selected poems. Thoroughly, consistently engaged poetry from Ó Dúill.
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Weight | 215 g |
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Angela Bourke, Poetry Ireland - Spring 2002
Gréagóir Ó Dúill's selection spans a youthful lifetime - 1965-2001 - drawing on his eight collections previously published by Coiscéim since 1981, and adding two poems previously unpublished. It is preceded by a thoughtful essay in which Ó Dúill traces his life in poetry and meditates on the influence of his Doyle and Dempsey forbears and his parents' migration north of the border when he was a child. Like the essay the poems are restrained, but confident, contemporary and precise, cerebral but tender.