Leabhar na hathghabhála: Poems of Repossession translation that tell ‘how our hurts

that tell ‘how our hurts come down … hard and without warning’

deeply humane and spiritually profound

Throughout

from the Herring Famine of 1944 to the Strangeways Prison Riot of 1990

Joey Frances is Based in Manchester

Leabhar na hathghabhála: Poems of Repossession translation that tell ‘how our hurtsPBS Recommended Translation Summer 2016 Irish English bilingual edition This is the first comprehensive critical anthology of modern poetry in Irish with English translations. It forms a sequel to Sen Tuama and Thomas Kinsellas pioneering anthology, An Duanaire 1600 1900 Poems of the Dispossessed (1981), but features many more poems in covering the work of 25 poets from the past century. It includes poems by Pdraig Mac Piarais and Liam S. Ggan from