ISBN The New Oxford of Irish Verse book 464 pages

This anthology presents the Irish tradition as a unity: verse in Irish and English usually regarded separately are shown as elements in a shared and often painful history. The selection is in three parts: it begins with earliest pre-Christian times and the first poetry in English from the fourteenth century; moves on to Irish bardic poetry and English poetry in the era of Swift and Goldsmith; and closes with nineteenth- and twentieth-century poets from Davis Mangan Yeats and Ferguson to Austin Clarke Patrick Kavanagh and Seamus Heaney.