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A facsimile reprint in the Hibernia series chosen and introduced by John Kelly ISBN 1 85477 217 1 174 x 127 mm 444 pages |
JAMES CLARENCE MANGAN Poets and Poetry of Munster 1883 The Dublin poet James Clarence Mangan (1803-49) led a wretched life. Brutally treated by his alcoholic father, he worked first as a law scrivener and later as a cataloguer in the library of Trinity College, Dublin. Worn out by poverty, alcohol, and probably opium, he succumbed to the cholera epidemic of 1849. James Joyce praised Mangan as 'the most significant poet of the modern Celtic world, and one of the most inspired singers that ever used the Lyric form in any country'. Poets and Poetry of Munster is his major collection of verse, and contains the best of his original poems, and his finest and most famous renderings from the Gaelic. £45 $75 |
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