McBreen, Joan, ed.
The White Page / An Bhileog Bhan : Twentieth-Century Irish Women Poets. Cliffs of Moher, County Clare: Salmon Publishing, 1999. (821.914 W5821)
Contains the work of several poets who write in Irish including Maire Bradshaw, Deirdre Brennan, Brid Daibhis, Biddy Jenkinson, Rita Kelly, Caitlin Maude, Colette Nic Aodha, Marie Nine Nic Gearailt, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Mairin Ni Dhomhnallain, Colette Ni Ghallchoir, Aine Ni Ghlinn, Brighid Ni Mhorain, Aine Ui Fhoghlu and Maire Ui Nuanain. Biographical sketches, most with photographs of the authors, accompany each Irish/English bilingual selection.
Crowe, Thomas Rain, ed.
Writing the Wind: A Celtic Resurgence: The New Celtic Poetry. Cullowhee, North Carolina: New Native Press, 1997. (891.6 W939)
The Irish Gaelic section features Irish/English bilingual selections as well some stand-alone translations into English of poems by Eithne Strong, Sean Ó Tuama, Biddy Jenkinson, Greagoir O Duill, Padraig Mac Fhearghusa, Micheal O’ Siadhail, Gabriel Rosenstock, Colette Ni Ghallchoir, Michael Davitt, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Gabriel Fitzmaurice, Aine Ni Ghlinn, Cathal Ó Searcaigh. Brief biographical sketches accompany the selections. There is also an excellent, succinct synopsis of Irish poetry in the Irish renaissance.
Volumes by Individual Poets
Ó Searcaigh, Cathal.
Out in the Open.
Indreabhan, Conamara: Clo Iar Chonnaachta, 1997. (891.6214 Os2o)
Ó Searcaigh emerged in the 1990s as a major new voice in Irish poetry, unusual in that he writes in Irish and is openly homosexual. Frank Sewell ably translates this bilingual edition.
Ní Dhomhnaill, Nuala.
The Astrakhan Cloak. Winston-Salem, North Carolina: Wake Forest University Press, 1993. (891.6214 N51a 1993)
The Library has a signed copy of this book. The text is bilingual Irish/English. The translator, Paul Muldoon, won a Pulitzer Prize in 2003 for his volume of poetry, Moy Sand and Gravel.
Ní Dhomhnaill, Nuala.Pharaoh’s Daughter. Winston-Salem, North Carolina: Wake Forest University Press, 1993. (891.6214 N51p 1993)
The Library's copy of this title is also signed by the author. The roster of translators in this bilingual edition includes the very best contemporary Irish writers.
